please do elaborate on exactly what kind of training turns the spam generator into a prescription-writer, or whatever other task that isn’t generating spam

Fraud detection is a task that it can do well at with machine learning using pattern recognition. An AI can chew through a massive data pool and find minor discrepancies in real time, much quicker than a human can and it can do so 24/7. In the case of say, credit card fraud, the AI will look at your historical data and see that all your in-person purchases for the last 6+ months have been within a certain area then it sees that your CC has been used 1700 miles away, when you just used it 6 hours prior. AI goes “yea it’s impossible for them to travel 1700 miles in 6 hours.” Then flags the data as suspicious for someone to review and it did all of this in a matter of seconds to minutes instead of the several hours it would take a person to do, assuming they even caught the discrepancy in the first place. That said it’s not always 100% accurate, that’s why I said “as a tool” not a replacement.

i’m pretty sure “normal” folks hate it because of all the crap it’s unleashed upon the internet, and not just because they didn’t use the most recent models off the “Hot” tab on HuggingFace

Hence why I say “partly why”. Yes probably more than half of the hate is because of all the generative AI slop that’s been puked out onto the internet with wreckless abandon but there’s also those that have to deal with the piss poor implementation of AI customer service replacements that just sit there and talk in a circle whilr you’re just trying to get your ISP to send out a technician to fix the landline that your hit with a weedwacker (took 45 minutes to finally get the damn thing to connect me with a service rep.)

what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

China Syndrome was a term coined in a 1971 article ‘Thoughts on Nuclear Plumbing’ by a former Manhattan Project scientist named Ralph Lapp. Essentially it’s a hypothetical sequence of events following the meltdown of a nuclear reactor, in which the core melts through its containment structure and deep into the earth “straight down to China”. Something that has been proven either impossible or improbable multiple times but people still hold on to the fear that it is possible and in doing so will constantly rebuke the idea of welcoming nuclear energy. Same concept applies to AI in a way. People only see it as a tool for spam, misinformation, our impending doom, etc and in doing so fail to see how, if handled correctly and professionally, it could become a very useful tool. Not a replacement, but a tool.