it is fucking priceless that an innovation that contained such simplicities as “don’t use 32-bit weights when tokenizing petabytes of data” and “compress your hash tables” sent the stock exchange into ‘the west has fallen’ mode. I don’t intend to take away from that, it’s so fucking funny

This is not the rights issue, this is not the labor issue, this is not the merits issue, this is not even the philosophical issue. This is the cognitive issue. When not exercised, parts of your brain will atrophy. You will start to outsource your thinking to the black box. You are not built different. It is the expected effect.

I am not saying this is happening on this forum, or even that there are tendencies close to this here, but I preemptively want to make sure it gets across because it fucked me up for a good bit. Through Late 2023–Early 2024 I found myself leaning into both AI images for character conceptualization and AI coding for my general workflow. I do not recommend this in the slightest.

For the former, I found that in retrospect, the AI image generation reified elements into the characters I did not intend and later regretted. For the latter, it essentially kneecapped my ability to produce code for myself until I began to wean off of it. I am a college student. I was in multiple classes where I was supposed to be actively learning these things. Deferring to AI essentially nullified that while also regressing my abilities. If you don’t keep yourself sharp, you will go dull.

If you don’t mind that or don’t feel it is personally worth it to learn these skills besides the very very basics and shallows, go ahead, that’s a different conversation but this one does not apply to you. I just want to warn those who did not develop their position on AI beyond “the most annoying people in the world are in charge of it and/or pushing it” (a position that, when deployed by otherwise-knowledgeable communists, is correct 95% of the time) that this is something you will have to be cognizant of. The brain responds to the unknowable cube by deferring to it. Stay vigilant.