Coffeezilla asks: “Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go.”

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If you think that “pretty much everything AI is a scam”, then you’re either setting your expectations way too high, or you’re only looking at startups trying to get the attention of investors.

    There are plenty of AI models out there today that are open source and can be used for a number of purposes: Generating images (stable diffusion), transcribing audio (whisper), audio generation, object detection, upscaling, downscaling, etc.

    Part of the problem might be with how you define AI… It’s way more broad of a term than what I think you’re trying to convey.

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      1 month ago

      I think it’s becoming fair to label a lot of commercial AI “scams” at this point, considering the huge gulf between the hype and the end results.

      Open source projects are different due to their lack of commercialisation.

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        1 month ago

        Sure, but don’t let that feed into the sentiment that AI = scams. It’s way too broad of a term that covers a ton of different applications (that already work) to be used in that way.

        And there are plenty of popular commercial AI products out there that work as well, so trying to say that “pretty much everything that’s commercial AI is a scam” is also inaccurate.

        We have:
        Suno’s music generation
        NVidia’s upscaling
        Midjourney’s Image Generation
        OpenAI’s ChatGPT
        Etc.

        So instead of trying to tear down everything and anything “AI”, we should probably just point out that startups using a lot of buzzwords (like “AI”) should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism, until they can prove their product in a live environment.