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@jeffowski #AI is an academic field of endeavour first. Just because there is some grifting and questionable actors now does not mean you can write it and all people involved in it off like that.

That is like saying Physics is a scam because people were peddling perpetuum mobila, writing of medicine because people are peddling miracle cures or writing off Computer Science because of the dot-com boom.

@bart - Physicists are not taking away livelihoods. What you are glossing over and hiding is that every profession you mentioned are not creating machines that steal content to commodify production and deny the rewards for making the original content to those original creators.
Why is that so hard for you to understand?
Considering how you're glossing over this fact, your entire interaction here is pretty disingenuous.
And SOME questionable actors? You don't see it is an entire industry of theft

@jeffowski My sister is an illustrator and graphic designer so I am very well aware of the unfairness regarding commercial generative AI systems. I think the jury is still out if they are really taking away jobs. My point is though, that reinforcement learning from human feedback used by these systems is not equivalent to 'AI', in fact, it is a (academically speaking) a tiny subfield within a subfield of AI.