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https://www.resetera.com/threads/google-pulls-its-pro-ai-%E2%80%9Cdear-sydney%E2%80%9D-ad-from-the-olympics-after-backlash-ars-technica.943893/page-2

I like how everytime the public backlashes against the use of AI in content creation and finds it dystopia, someone has to quickly run in to remind us that "the technology is here to stay!" "It has good uses!"

Okay, guns are here to stay too and have good uses sometimes but that doesn't mean I have to like the fucking mass shootings, now does it?

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The ad is admittedly arse, but I can't really blame people for not seeing positive usecases for AI. It's pretty advanced and complicated tech with many applications that aren't immediately obvious, or don't work with the AI systems people know. Google isn't going to highlight cool stuff like RAG or document interaction, because you'll probably want to run that shit locally for privacy or bandwidth reasons. I run Llama 3.1, Florence 2 and a bunch of other stuff on my machine and love it. It's search on steroids. I can ask my PC "hey, that offer I submitted to client X a couple years back, what was my hourly rate back then?", and just get the answer. I also use a bunch of image models in editing, for stuff like background removal, touch-ups (inpainting), relighting and what not. And it's obviously very useful when writing code, though I mostly use it to write documentation for me, or have the AI explain code written by somebody else.