Writing this up again so I can pin it: AI is literally a fascist project. Friends don't let friends use it.
Before I go into this, there are two types of responses to this that I have taken seriously so far.
One I'll call HashTagNotAllAI, which yields the obligatory "sure", but has the same smell. I'll leave it at that.
The other is that an anti AI stance also throws some assistive technology under the bus, making such a stance intrinsically ableistic. The easy thing to do is to refer...
@jens AI is too confusing of a term, especially when talking about assistance. e.g., can text to speech or voice recognition technology be called AI? It certainly doesn't a rainforest destroying LLM level of technology; it's been around for at least 35 years.
I don't stay abreast of all the assistive technology, but is there any that really requires LLMs at massive scale?
Yes. AI is a far older and broader field than just the current LLM hype. Speech recognition, handwriting recognition, chess playing, various types of expert systems, route-finding, etc.
But LLMs and other modern genAI does feel different to a lot of people. And it uses a lot more data and resources.
@lwriemen As has been mentioned in a sub-thread, there e.g. exist things that analyze an image and provide textual desceiptions.
In the broader sense, translation is an assistive tech for non-native speakers of any language.