I’m not an AI techie and I’m not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I’m having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I’ve heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can’t really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    There are motives for whistleblowers to lie. Book sales, political careers, other attention. The executives they accused, though, just said they were right

    • TronBronson@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      of course there’s motivation for everything, which one are you assigning this individual and based on what technological disagreement?

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 hours ago

        when the boss who is being whistleblowed against admits the whistleblower is right, you can believe both that there are problems. I can’t think of any other case in history where this happened. The disgruntled ex-employee smear is a common defensive move instead.

        • TronBronson@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          10 hours ago

          Thats sound logic, i can’t disagree with that. I still think having a machine that can automate scripting of malware is pretty dangerous to the digital society we set up. If the grid fails and the financial system collapses, I’m gonna be okay… Are you?