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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

· Föderation EN Fr 10.01.2025 12:43:39

@bedast

Maybe this needs to be called "voice recognition" instead of AI?

Using a term that nowadays means something awful is going to make misunderstandings more likely?

(When I read the news about VLC using AI I wrongly assumed it meant generative AI, as that has totally dominated discourse.)

Sami Määttä

Föderation EN Fr 10.01.2025 13:00:14

@FediThing @bedast One of GenAI's well poisoning aspects has been tarnishing the term "AI". It has lost its meaning now.

Ben Ramsey

Föderation EN Fr 10.01.2025 16:37:50

@SamiMaatta @FediThing @bedast In the case of automatic transcription, it’s using machine-learning models, which are similar enough to LLMs that it muddies the water, as far as terminology goes.

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

Föderation EN Sa 11.01.2025 00:11:15

@ramsey @SamiMaatta @bedast

Whatever it's called, perhaps it needs to get across the ethics of its technology if it wants to avoid misunderstandings?

If it's using massive amounts of energy and/or stolen data for training, then it's probably unethical.

If it's using reasonable amounts of energy and hasn't stolen any data, then it might be ethical.

(I think? Just a layperson here, might be a lot of stuff I'm missing...)

Henrik Pauli

Föderation EN Sa 11.01.2025 02:46:24

@SamiMaatta @FediThing @bedast And so every developer or group with a sense of marketing should have started avoiding the word for like a year now.