cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53077671

Smooth Dunk | Bluesky

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3 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2: Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3: Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    8·
    16 hours ago

    LLMs are productivity software that have some potential to be useful in some industries. The main thing they’re disrupting is the preexisting status of copyright protections and intellectual property; they’re really good at plagiarism, especially in fields like programming and mathematics, in ways that are actually potentially extremely useful but are also mostly untested in court and we have no idea how that’s going to play out. Also? Really potent malware, able to augment human hackers to ridiculous degrees.

    But it’s not intelligent. That’s just marketing.

    • Cheebus@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 hours ago

      The malware angle has had me losing sleep, not sure from an infosec point how we could keep up without using the same tech

      I’m not even sure really good device hardening is enough because of that reverse engineering angle

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        4·
        5 hours ago

        Disconnecting from the internet will always be an option.

        Definitely ruins the dreams of having an “internet of things” where all of our devices are connected to the internet, though.