This isn’t the first time I’m hearing your arguments. It reminds me of the metaverse arguments where every failed metaverse is not really the metaverse. The problem with that is you don’t get to dictate what counts as AI, and what doesn’t.
I think these are different arguments because I’m not saying corporate AI isn’t AI itself. Just not the whole concept. Compare that to the the Metaverse which is in and of itself a corporate project designed solely for a capitalist purpose. I’ve never seen a Metaverse built for a hobbyist purpose but I have seen and used AIs built for hobbyist or community purposes.
Just like corporate social media isn’t all social media. Corporate AI isn’t all AI, many people including @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com are building out non-corporate solutions.
Which is why the arguments can’t be applied equally to everything.
The Metaverse wasn’t the only metaverse. I’m talking about that, Decentraland and dozens of other failed projects. Every time one of them failed the other grifters used to decry that it wasn’t the real metaverse. Just like you’re decrying that corporate AI shouldn’t be the focus of the discussion despite it literally being 99% of the compute, capital and use cases.
I didn’t say it shouldn’t be a focus of discussion. I’m saying separate it from open source projects and their users, because open source projects and their users don’t help Sam Altman and friends in any way. These projects exist largely in spite of corporate AI.
I think these are different arguments because I’m not saying corporate AI isn’t AI itself. Just not the whole concept. Compare that to the the Metaverse which is in and of itself a corporate project designed solely for a capitalist purpose. I’ve never seen a Metaverse built for a hobbyist purpose but I have seen and used AIs built for hobbyist or community purposes. Just like corporate social media isn’t all social media. Corporate AI isn’t all AI, many people including @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com are building out non-corporate solutions. Which is why the arguments can’t be applied equally to everything.
The Metaverse wasn’t the only metaverse. I’m talking about that, Decentraland and dozens of other failed projects. Every time one of them failed the other grifters used to decry that it wasn’t the real metaverse. Just like you’re decrying that corporate AI shouldn’t be the focus of the discussion despite it literally being 99% of the compute, capital and use cases.
I didn’t say it shouldn’t be a focus of discussion. I’m saying separate it from open source projects and their users, because open source projects and their users don’t help Sam Altman and friends in any way. These projects exist largely in spite of corporate AI.
They actually do. They normalize it.