Listening to another pitch about how AI can empower workers at various jobs across my industry, I was striken by the comparison in the title
3d printing, just like generative models, have it’s actual niche uses, where it’s obvious downsides are irrelevant and they come handy, e.g. prototyping, replacements, small-series production
Where it comes to the top-down AI promotion trend, it feels not unlike the idea of printing the whole product - a car, or a house, from the smallest details - applying the least effective method, doomed to have a worse than average outcome due to technological limitations
And screws, the thing that we nailed down long before, and that is completely incompatible with that mode of production, is a screaming, growling, shrieking example of how helpful tech can be mispurposed in the most stupid way
This is fucking hillarious and so on point for lemmy in regards to ai. People who dont know what theyre talking about trying to make deep points only to find out that yeah people do this thing they didnt understand ALL THE TIME. And simply are unable to comprehend how or why anyone would do said thing. Half the comments agree with OP and the other half are ‘yeah i do this all the time for these reasons’. Then the responses are all ‘oh well i hadnt thought of that’ or ‘i still dont understand’
So where’s the downside? There is a discussion and exchange of opinions\experiences. /c/showerthoughts is not /c/science.
All the people agreeing wirh you without actually reading any of the comments or trying to understand what you didnt understand. Theyre going to go out into the world and make the same wrong assumptions and misunderstandings made here.