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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 31 points 1 week ago

Idk if it’s the biggest problem, but it’s probably top three.

Other problems could include:

  • Power usage
  • Adding noise to our communication channels
  • AGI fears if you buy that (I don’t personally)
[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Dead Internet theory has never been a bigger threat. I believe that’s the number one danger - endless quantities of advertising and spam shoved down our throats from every possible direction.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

We’re pretty close to it, most videos on YouTube and websites that exist are purely just for some advertiser to pay that person for a review or recommendation

[-] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Power usage

I'm generally a huge eco guy but on power usage particularly I view this largely as a government failure. We have had to incredible energy resources that the government has chosen not to implement or effectively dismantled.

It reminds me a lot of how Recycling has been pushed so hard into the general public instead of and government laws on plastic usage and waste disposal.

It's always easier to wave your hands and blame "society" than the is to hold the actual wealthy and powerful accountable.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Could also put up:

  • Massive collections of people are exploited in order to train various AI systems.
  • Machine learning apps that create text or images from prompts are supposed to be supplementary but businesses are actively trying to replace their workers with this software.
  • Machine learning image generation currently has diminishing returns for training as we pump exponentially more content into them.
  • Machine learning text and image generated content self-poisons their generater's sample pool, greatly diminishing the ability for these systems to learn from real world content.

There's actually a much longer list if we expand to talking about other AI systems, like the robot systems we're currently training to use in automatic warfare. There's also the angle of these image and text generation systems being used for political manipulation and scams. There's alot of terrible problems created from this tech.

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