With the New York mayoral election just days away, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo has taken to social media on Halloween to try to warn voters against Democratic rival and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa – with the help of “embarrassing” AI-generated content.Cuom...
  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    My feelings on AI are also complicated, but I’m glad we all agree this is radioactive trash.

    I love to play around with local AI; random github releases, local-hosted-and-use LLMs, and free code seem genuinely interesting, even if I don’t plan to do anything public. And when it doesn’t feed back to a corporation, and the benefits go only to the user, I’m usually for it.

    Like…My local-hosted Immich server has AI image recognition, fully locally hosted, no corporate parasitic training use, just the ability to use language to search. Like, I can immediately find that one picture from 15 years ago that I know has a dog in it by searching for “dog” and scrolling a tiny bit.

    But AI platforms use that seeks to reinforce power (corporations like Google and Meta, politicians like Trump and Cuomo, billionaires like Musk) or startups obviously staking claims to try to capture and monetize users (OpenAI, and the fifty thousand other techbro VC simp startups) are physically repulsive to me.