A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
I’m interested in the people that make the stuff I consume. When I read something or enjoy a piece of art, much of the enjoyment is imagining why the artist made the decisions they did. If it was made by AI, the answer is much less interesting.
This is not a piece of art, it’s a piece of educational material showing people what information websites collect about them. But it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.
it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.
Would you feel differently about, say a book you read and somewhat enjoyed if you later learned it was written by a fascist? It sure would make a difference to me. Have you never consumed any sort of media that you later felt was tainted by who created it, or used a product that you later decided not to use again after learning how it was produced? There’s even a colloquialism referring to this very thing, about “knowing how the sausage is made.”
Sure, because it would be tainted by another individual with goals and intentions different from my own. Being upset that something was made using a particular tool is quite different from that. Also, do you get upset looking at a beautiful sunset just because no human designed it intentionally?
I was taking the statement about what you found “fascinating” in isolation because it was phrased as such. You were surprised that the other commenter could find enjoyment in “something” not knowing how it was produced then feel less enjoyment after learning more. That is a silly thing to be “fascinated” by because it is something that the vast majority of us are keenly familiar with. But because that commenter has qualms about AI which you don’t, you suddenly can’t understand how later information about something can alter one’s enjoyment of it? It’s an absurd thing to say. As is your sunset question. I don’t get upset looking at most AI slop either, but I absolutely do place it in a different category than either a natural phenomenon or something I know was made by human expression and if you can’t understand or recognize that difference, I don’t know that anything I could say could help you with that.
Last I checked, LLMs have no will or agency of their own. Literally everything they produce is an artifact of a human expressing themselves. The argument is regarding how much effort a human is expected to put in and what tools they use to express themselves. Apparently, when a certain arbitrary threshold is reached, then it’s no longer human responsible for producing something.
Yeah I guess it was human expression that confidently insisted superglue was a safe ingredient to put on my pizza to hold the cheese on it. I don’t even give much of a shit about LLM slop on the occasions it’s accurate, it was your bad faith and absurd response to the other commenter that I was calling out which you ignored in order to shift the discussion to philosophical arguments about AI that make you sound like the entrepreneur genius Sam Altman or the other tech bro capitalists trying to keep that bubble from popping.
Yeah, because we didn’t have stuff like flat earthers before LLMs. That’s totally a new phenomena never ever observed in humans. All these arguments are bullshit, and you all know this deep down. LLMs are just a tool, it’s another form of automation, there’s nothing magical about these things. And people are just losing their shit over it, and it’s frankly tiresome.
If intelligently designed sunsets were an option, I’d probably like those more. You raise a good point, we might just like all these “natural beauties” because we haven’t anything else.
Or perhaps the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We are able to appreciate things that look interesting without them having been designed, and they can trigger emotions and ideas within our own minds that are meaningful to us. Even with human created artifacts, we do not know what the artist was thinking vast majority of the time, or what they were actually trying to convey. We interpret the work using our own thoughts and experience. So, even with the most meticulously human generated art, it is the viewer projecting their own meaning onto it.
The enjoyment includes the feeling of reaching out to another person’s mind. Finding out there is no mind is like expecting stairs where there are none and stepping into emptiness.
That’s just complete misunderstanding of how people use these tools. The intention still comes from somebody’s mind. Somebody had an idea and they used the tool to execute it.
AI generated is just a stand in for hollow & over-dramatized here. Probably I could enjoy AI generated content if it wasn’t shit. The claims on the site reminiscent of 14y/o skids trying to scare each other: “uhhh I got your IP I will hack you now!1!1”, except now you have access to some chatbot subscription to make it sound like it’s a big deal.
It is a big deal how much the browser shares about you without people realizing. No one thinks about these things.
If you use a VPN on Spain you might think you’re safe but then your timezone is saying you’re in Ireland. You thought you were fooling them buy you really aren’t. You can’t outsmart fingerprint and I wish people made a bigger deal about this so actual solutions get implemented.
Sites like these raise awareness which is quite important.
I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.
In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.
I mean that’s fine, but plenty of things in our modern life are mass produced, and utilitarian. Everything doesn’t need to be art. For example, I don’t need my toothbrush to be crafted by an artisan, nor do I care if a website that shows stats collected by the browser was artisanally coded or not.
I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:
Art is a matter of perspective.
Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.
Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.
What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.
You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…
That’s just a complete straw man that stems from having utter lack of understanding how people actually use LLMs. Here’s one example for you from Terence Tao https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.
These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.
And the rest of us are just tired of people braying about AI in every single thread. People just have to learn how to deal with their personal issues without spamming about their feelings everywhere. I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point. These tantrums add absolutely nothing to any discussion, and they’re just noise.
I’m tired of people screeching about slop in every thread about any subject. Please try being tired of slop quietly in your own head. Or make a community where people who enjoy hearing other people screech about slop can yell at each other how much you all hate slop.
Could you explain why it would be in any way relevant if that was the case?
I’m interested in the people that make the stuff I consume. When I read something or enjoy a piece of art, much of the enjoyment is imagining why the artist made the decisions they did. If it was made by AI, the answer is much less interesting.
This is not a piece of art, it’s a piece of educational material showing people what information websites collect about them. But it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.
Would you feel differently about, say a book you read and somewhat enjoyed if you later learned it was written by a fascist? It sure would make a difference to me. Have you never consumed any sort of media that you later felt was tainted by who created it, or used a product that you later decided not to use again after learning how it was produced? There’s even a colloquialism referring to this very thing, about “knowing how the sausage is made.”
I’ll still eat that slop
Sure, because it would be tainted by another individual with goals and intentions different from my own. Being upset that something was made using a particular tool is quite different from that. Also, do you get upset looking at a beautiful sunset just because no human designed it intentionally?
I was taking the statement about what you found “fascinating” in isolation because it was phrased as such. You were surprised that the other commenter could find enjoyment in “something” not knowing how it was produced then feel less enjoyment after learning more. That is a silly thing to be “fascinated” by because it is something that the vast majority of us are keenly familiar with. But because that commenter has qualms about AI which you don’t, you suddenly can’t understand how later information about something can alter one’s enjoyment of it? It’s an absurd thing to say. As is your sunset question. I don’t get upset looking at most AI slop either, but I absolutely do place it in a different category than either a natural phenomenon or something I know was made by human expression and if you can’t understand or recognize that difference, I don’t know that anything I could say could help you with that.
Last I checked, LLMs have no will or agency of their own. Literally everything they produce is an artifact of a human expressing themselves. The argument is regarding how much effort a human is expected to put in and what tools they use to express themselves. Apparently, when a certain arbitrary threshold is reached, then it’s no longer human responsible for producing something.
Yeah I guess it was human expression that confidently insisted superglue was a safe ingredient to put on my pizza to hold the cheese on it. I don’t even give much of a shit about LLM slop on the occasions it’s accurate, it was your bad faith and absurd response to the other commenter that I was calling out which you ignored in order to shift the discussion to philosophical arguments about AI that make you sound like the entrepreneur genius Sam Altman or the other tech bro capitalists trying to keep that bubble from popping.
Yeah, because we didn’t have stuff like flat earthers before LLMs. That’s totally a new phenomena never ever observed in humans. All these arguments are bullshit, and you all know this deep down. LLMs are just a tool, it’s another form of automation, there’s nothing magical about these things. And people are just losing their shit over it, and it’s frankly tiresome.
If intelligently designed sunsets were an option, I’d probably like those more. You raise a good point, we might just like all these “natural beauties” because we haven’t anything else.
Or perhaps the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We are able to appreciate things that look interesting without them having been designed, and they can trigger emotions and ideas within our own minds that are meaningful to us. Even with human created artifacts, we do not know what the artist was thinking vast majority of the time, or what they were actually trying to convey. We interpret the work using our own thoughts and experience. So, even with the most meticulously human generated art, it is the viewer projecting their own meaning onto it.
The enjoyment includes the feeling of reaching out to another person’s mind. Finding out there is no mind is like expecting stairs where there are none and stepping into emptiness.
That’s just complete misunderstanding of how people use these tools. The intention still comes from somebody’s mind. Somebody had an idea and they used the tool to execute it.
They’re the client, not the artist. There is no artist and no artist’s mind to connect to.
In the same way a photographer is a client of the camera.
I cannot begin to explain the misunderstandings in this statement.
That’s because there is no misunderstanding in this statement. It’s just that your argument happens to be incoherent.
AI generated is just a stand in for hollow & over-dramatized here. Probably I could enjoy AI generated content if it wasn’t shit. The claims on the site reminiscent of 14y/o skids trying to scare each other: “uhhh I got your IP I will hack you now!1!1”, except now you have access to some chatbot subscription to make it sound like it’s a big deal.
It is a big deal how much the browser shares about you without people realizing. No one thinks about these things.
If you use a VPN on Spain you might think you’re safe but then your timezone is saying you’re in Ireland. You thought you were fooling them buy you really aren’t. You can’t outsmart fingerprint and I wish people made a bigger deal about this so actual solutions get implemented.
Sites like these raise awareness which is quite important.
So, just say that. You think site is hollow and over dramaticized.
because if you lack the ability to discern whether or not something is actual useful feedback or hallucinated AI garbage then it’s worthless
“knowing” something wrong is arguably worse than not knowing anything at all
Oh boy, if you think humans are never wrong and trust human generated content implicitly, prepare to be surprised.
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is
I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.
In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.
I mean that’s fine, but plenty of things in our modern life are mass produced, and utilitarian. Everything doesn’t need to be art. For example, I don’t need my toothbrush to be crafted by an artisan, nor do I care if a website that shows stats collected by the browser was artisanally coded or not.
I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:
Art is a matter of perspective.
Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.
Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.
What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.
You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…
That’s just a complete straw man that stems from having utter lack of understanding how people actually use LLMs. Here’s one example for you from Terence Tao https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.
These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.
And the rest of us are just tired of people braying about AI in every single thread. People just have to learn how to deal with their personal issues without spamming about their feelings everywhere. I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point. These tantrums add absolutely nothing to any discussion, and they’re just noise.
“I’m tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems”
Good, it’s working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it’s very vocally unwanted.
Not really, people are just tired of your spam.
People are tired of slop.
I’m tired of people screeching about slop in every thread about any subject. Please try being tired of slop quietly in your own head. Or make a community where people who enjoy hearing other people screech about slop can yell at each other how much you all hate slop.