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This isn’t dismissing what Meta is doing, but Cinema in the West has been just as complicit and involved.
The difference is far more nuanced and borders on inconsequential when it comes to mass media influence on society.
Just because something is presented as fiction or for entertainment doesn’t mean it doesn’t impact your psyche or your perception of the world and others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinio...
I use a combination of big American AI and self hosted but I don’t understand your point.
Questions must be asked about how and why we got here rather appeal to submission.
This comes from a die hard bmw fan. Facts over feelings.
Like almost everything, utility and efficiency is relative and dependent on the environment and external factors. People often overlook the “fit”.
> your AI writes like a LinkedIn post. make it write like a Boeing manual.
> An agent skill that forces LLMs to write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English: the controlled language aerospace has used since 1983 so a tired mechanic cannot misread an instruction. AI slop dies as a side effect.
It is malicious and anti-capitalist legislation. A grotesque caricature of protectionism for the oligarchs.
Even when Russ Cox and Go team had come to term with reality and stopped pretending like we are in 70s still, these lot will move goalposts. It is a kind of psychosis and sycophancy that is beyond rational discourse.
Once the talk of “we will be laying off people based on productivity in upcoming months” starts; probable go kamakazi.
This is categorically false because time and cost pressure is relative and if anything AI has exacerbated the exceptions for ROI and Turn Around time.
This along with the fact that even state of the art AI tends to generate subpar (albeit working) code extremely fast and in large volume.
You can see the effect of this already in the increased rate of production incidents recently.
This isn’t to say that AI is useless, but the tech debt it generates is unprecedented.