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There is no such thing as AI.

How to help the non technical and less online people in your life navigate the latest techbro grift.

I've seen other people say stuff to this effect but it's worth reiterating. Today in class, my professor was talking about a news article where a celebrity's likeness was used in an ai image without their permission. Then she mentioned a guest lecture about how AI is going to help finance professionals. Then I pointed out, those two things aren't really related.

The term AI is being used to obfuscate details about multiple semi-related technologies.

Traditionally in sci-fi, AI means artificial general intelligence like Data from star trek, or the terminator. This, I shouldn't need to say, doesn't exist. Techbros use the term AI to trick investors into funding their projects. It's largely a grift.

What is the term AI being used to obfuscate?

If you want to help the less online and less tech literate people in your life navigate the hype around AI, the best way to do it is to encourage them to change their language around AI topics.

By calling these technologies what they really are, and encouraging the people around us to know the real names, we can help lift the veil, kill the hype, and keep people safe from scams. Here are some starting points, which I am just pulling from Wikipedia. I'd highly encourage you to do your own research.

Machine learning (ML): is an umbrella term for solving problems for which development of algorithms by human programmers would be cost-prohibitive, and instead the problems are solved by helping machines "discover" their "own" algorithms, without needing to be explicitly told what to do by any human-developed algorithms. (This is the basis of most technologically people call AI)

Language model: (LM or LLM) is a probabilistic model of a natural language that can generate probabilities of a series of words, based on text corpora in one or multiple languages it was trained on. (This would be your ChatGPT.)

Generative adversarial network (GAN): is a class of machine learning framework and a prominent framework for approaching generative AI. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is another agent's loss. (This is the source of some AI images and deepfakes.)

Diffusion Models: Models that generate the probability distribution of a given dataset. In image generation, a neural network is trained to denoise images with added gaussian noise by learning to remove the noise. After the training is complete, it can then be used for image generation by starting with a random noise image and denoise that. (This is the more common technology behind AI images, including Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. I added this one to the post after as it was brought to my attention it is now more common than GANs.)

I know these terms are more technical, but they are also more accurate, and they can easily be explained in a way non-technical people can understand. The grifters are using language to give this technology its power, so we can use language to take it's power away and let people see it for what it really is.

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kinda random but I've been reading some fanfics of jayvik or js Viktor raising jinx/powder and also that one where Mel raises powder(so soo good chefs kiss) and I've also been slowly converted into a MelVik stan(I was platonic MelVik B4 + jayvikmel but that pipeline chased me down) but like can u imagine MelVik raising pow/jinx together. Like can u imagine the family banter/convos?!?! I've seen ppl talk about how the sass and wit would be off the charts with MelVik but with jinx too?!?! It'd be so fun to read. Like maybe MelVik from the academy days become an established couple and then they find powder who would've run from silco. And then they decide to take her in and eventually Jayce prob gets merged into the MelVik relationship? Ooh Jayce would be fighting for his life from jinx's pranks and MelVik scold her. But they make fun(playfully) of Jayce all the time at dinner.

Ooh like this fic of married melvik. Mwah. This is def how I imagine this au. https://www.tumblr.com/sandywitchboi/770264341755887616/the-people-you-thought-you-knew-etherealnyx?source=share

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It grew as we say in ‘uit de klauwen gewassen’ (littraly it means more or less it grew well beyond it’s root ball). As a saying it means it got way bigger than intended or expected.  It is a pity there is no proper translation as I find it fitting for the fic.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ekko/Jinx (League of Legends) Additional Tags: Wholesome, Idiots in Love, Fruit, Language of Flowers, Modern AU, Piercings Summary:

When boxes of fruit start to appear Jinx is baffled. Is there a garden gnome on the loose? One who thinks she eats terribly? Or is there more to the boxes? She has to wonder especially when cards with nothing more than two flowers on them are added. Tattoo Artist Jinx x Florist Ekko

I heard someone say that all your hobbies can be traced back to a single moment which made me remember that when I was in elementary school, my sister and I would have "storytime" late at night after my parents went to sleep. And it would just be me rewriting the ending of shows we watched when we didn't like the endings. Chat I was literally writing fanfiction for wild Kratts.

When you're 12-14 and you first get obsessed with a ship, nobody warns you. Nobody warns you that that ship will form the blueprint for your taste in ships, fic, and tropes for the entire rest of your fandom life.

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