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So clearly we do agree on most of this stuff, but I did want to point out a possibility you may not have considered.
This depends on the penalty and how strictly it's enforced. If it's enforced like normal copyright law, then you're right; your chances of getting in serious trouble just for downloading stuff are essentially nil -- the worst thing that will happen to you is your ISP will three-strikes you and you'll lose internet access. On the other hand, there's a lot of panic surrounding AI, and the government might use that as an excuse to pass laws that would give people prison time for possessing one, and then fund strict enforcement. I hope that doesn't happen, but with rumblings of insane laws that would give people prison time for using a VPN to watch a TV show outside of the country, I'm a bit concerned.
As for the parent comment's motivations, it's hard to say for sure with any particular individual, but I have noticed a pattern among neoliberals where they say things like "well, the rich are already powerful and we can't do anything about it, so why try" or "having universal health care, which the rest of the first world has implemented successfully, is unrealistic, so why try" and so on. It often boils down to giving lip service to progressive social values while steadfastly refusing to do anything that might actually make a difference. It's economic conservatism dressed as progressivism. Even if that's not what they meant (and it would be unwise of me to just assume that), I feel like that general attitude needs to be confronted.
If I'm the "parent comment" you're referring to, then that's very much not my motivation. I'm just pointing out that "AI is accessible to everyone" is not a hard binary situation, and that while it may be true that big giant corporations have an advantage due to being big giant corporations with a ton of resources to throw at this stuff AI is indeed still accessible to some degree to the average consumer.
Well, again, "the average consumer" being first-world individuals with the resources to buy a nice computer and spend time playing with it. These things are a continuum and that's not the end point of it, you can always go further down the resource rankings and find people for whom AI is not "accessible" by whatever standards. Unfortunately it's kind of accepted as a given that people on the poor end of the spectrum don't have access to this kind of stuff or will have to depend on external service providers.
You're not. I was talking about the thread parent: "Many things in life are a privilege for these groups. AI is no different." I should have been more specific.
At any rate, I personally feel that we have a moral responsibility to make it accessible to as many people as possible.
Okay, just wanted to make sure since I'm upstream of the comment.
I agree that making these things as accessible as possible is ideal, it's just that the "as possible" part is tricky with expensive new technology like this. My personal desire is to see UBI implemented on the backs of AI and robot labor, which hopefully will come a lot closer to making universal access possible.