This explains why this promising technology can’t be put to good use, why there can’t be a compensation model similar to YouTube’s, why it’s called artificial intelligence, and all that.

It’s an ideological issue, and it’s dominated by those who are used to their work being worth an absurd amount of money per hour— it's promoted by the combined power of all those vultures who have never accomplished even the slightest thing in their lives. It’s the wet dream of Wall Street hedge fund managers and CEOs who keep moving on after they’ve ruined yet another company.

That’s why it’s so incredibly fitting that the U.S. regime is betting so heavily on LLMs—they’re the prime example of the very actors preventing humanity from benefiting from this technological achievement. They epitomize what happens when egregious incompetence, criminal energy, and utter unscrupulousness are given opportunities and power that they should never have.

Gepostet von Martin Sonneborn mit folgender Beschreibung:

Dieser Auszug aus der Rede von Navid Kermani beim feierlichen Rekrutengelöbnis im Bendlerblock lohnt sich nicht nur wegen des dummen Gesichts, das Verteidigungsminister Pistolius dabei macht... Smiley!

"Zu sagen, was ist, bleibt die revolutionärste Tat." R.L.

Zusammenfassung:

Kermani kritisiert die Unterstützung der Bundesregierung, insbesondere des Bundeskanzlers, für den völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg der US und Israels gegen den Iran.

Er verweist auf den Wert des internationalen Rechts für die Aufrechterhaltung eines ordnungsbasierten, friedlichen Zusammenlebens und fordert die Rekruten, zu denen er bei diesem Anlass spricht, dazu auf, einen möglichen Befehl zur Teilnahme an einem völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg zu verweigern.

Kermani begründet dies, indem er die Verantwortung betont, die insbesondere Deutschland für die Verteidigung des internationalen Rechts schon aufgrund seiner historischen Verantwortung trägt.

Subjektive Einordnung:

Meine Ermessens sind es dieser Tage leider viel zu selten gehörte, offene Worte, die deutlich machen, wie absurd das Verhalten der Bundesregierung ist, und wie konträr deren Duckmäusertum gegenüber den US jenen Werten entgegensteht, für die Deutschland auf internationaler Ebene einstehen sollte, zu deren Bewahrung und Verteidigung wir sogar verpflichtet sind.

Es ist ein unaufgeregtes, gut begründetes Plädoyer gegen eine Beteiligung an illegalen Kriegen, Kriegsverbrechen und Völkermord.

Am 2. Juli haben die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD beschlossen, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) faktisch abzuschaffen – ein Frontalangriff auf unsere Informationsfreiheit und Demokratie. Dabei versprach die Bundesregierung im Koalitionsvertrag noch das Gegenteil: eine Reform des IFG „mit einem Mehrwert für Bürgerinnen und Bürger". Diesen Angriff müssen wir stoppen. (...)

Link zur Petition

Please go easy on the downvotes—the point here is to try to understand a perspective that many of you probably won't share.

I’m talking about derogatory terms like “nerd,” “geek,” “wise-ass,” and so on, as well as sayings like “nobody likes a smart aleck.”

It seems to me that these terms and expressions are used much more frequently in the business world than derogatory terms like “show-off,” “charlatan,” “fraud,” and so on.

I can’t even think of a commonly used saying for the latter. Only: “Fake it till you make it,” which is really more of a reinforcement of the idea that knowledge isn’t very valuable.

Is it just my impression?

This illusion is what made the current AI hype possible in the first place, and it is now causing humanity to take steps backward rather than moving forward. Yet AI technology could be used fairly and very effectively if it weren’t marketed exactly as it is: as a machine that supposedly enables everyone to do things they don’t have the slightest clue about.

This is what has made social media so profitable, and it’s also the reason why LLMs aren’t being used the way they should be, but are instead being sold as artificial intelligence to idiots who don’t have the slightest clue about the subject -not about what it takes or how long it takes to write a book, paint a picture, write a scientific article, code a secure application, or whatever.

The profit motive has turned the internet into the opposite of what it should have been, and AI technology has consequently ended up as an instrument of power in the hands of a small number of people who are incredibly narrow-minded but, unfortunately, also incredibly powerful due to their boundless greed.

It is the general public that bears the brunt of this boundless greed.

If things continue this way and we look just a few decades into the future, this is exactly what will spell the end of humanity, since profit is always prioritized over the common good.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47219103

This is the introductory text of a petition from Germany calling on the President of the European Commission to enforce existing law rather than granting exemptions to U.S. tech giants on her own initiative, without consulting the public:

Google is violating Europe’s digital rules. The European Commission had therefore already planned to impose a fine of billions of euros. However, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is said to have blocked the decision at the last minute—apparently out of concern over political pressure from the U.S. This sends a dangerous signal: Europe’s laws must apply even when powerful corporations and governments challenge them. We call on Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission: Enforce the Digital Markets Act consistently against Google. Defend our democratic rules against the power of the big tech companies.

Introduction to a Petition by Campact (German organization) with more than 70,000 signatures after one week

Please post links to similar petitions from other EU countries in the comments. It is unacceptable for our politicians to unilaterally suspend existing laws in order to sell us out to US corporations. Fight back!

This is the introductory text of a petition from Germany calling on the President of the European Commission to enforce existing law rather than granting exemptions to U.S. tech giants on her own initiative, without consulting the public:

Google is violating Europe’s digital rules. The European Commission had therefore already planned to impose a fine of billions of euros. However, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is said to have blocked the decision at the last minute—apparently out of concern over political pressure from the U.S. This sends a dangerous signal: Europe’s laws must apply even when powerful corporations and governments challenge them. We call on Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission: Enforce the Digital Markets Act consistently against Google. Defend our democratic rules against the power of the big tech companies.

Introduction to a Petition by Campact (German organization) with more than 70,000 signatures after one week

Please post links to similar petitions from other EU countries in the comments. It is unacceptable for our politicians to unilaterally suspend existing laws in order to sell us out to US corporations. Fight back!

Google verstößt gegen Europas Digitalregeln. Die EU-Kommission wollte deshalb bereits eine Milliardenstrafe verhängen. Doch Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen soll die Entscheidung auf den letzten Metern gestoppt haben – offenbar aus Sorge vor politischem Druck aus den USA. Das ist ein gefährliches Signal: Europas Gesetze müssen auch gelten, wenn mächtige Konzerne und Regierungen sie infragestellen. Wir fordern Ursula von der Leyen und die EU-Kommission auf: Setzen Sie den Digital Markets Act konsequent gegen Google durch. Verteidigen Sie unsere demokratischen Regeln gegen die Macht der großen Tech-Konzerne...