• tripartitegraph [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I think we agree that LLMs like ChatGPT and CoPilot largely will be (and are being) used to discipline labor and that is reactionary. But this feels more like a list of gripes with LLMs and not actually responding to my comment. DKL, GNNs and other machine learning architectures ARE being used in drug and material discovery research, I just didn’t feel like explaining the difference between that and the popular conception of “AI” to peppersky, given how flippant and troll-y their comments were. We should push back against anti-intellectualism in our spaces, and that’s all I was trying to do.

    • piggy [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I agree that anti-intellectualism is bad, but I wouldn’t necessarily consider being AI negative by default, a form of anti-intellectualism. It’s the same thing as people who are negative on space exploration. It’s a symptom where it seems that there is infinite money for things that are fad/scams/bets, things that have limited practical use in people’s lives, and ultimately not enough to support people.

      That’s really where I see those arguments coming from. AI is quite honestly a frivolity in a society where housing is a luxury.