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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 111 points 5 months ago
[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 48 points 5 months ago

AI isn't a product for consumers, its a product for investors. If somewhere down the line a consumer benefits in some way, that's just a side effect.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Think about the ways that information tech has revolutionized our ability to do things. It's allowed us to do math, produce and distribute news and entertainment, communicate with each other, make our voices heard, organize movements, and create and access pornography at rates and in ways that humanity could only have dreamed of only a few decades ago.

Now consider that AI is first and foremost a technology predicated on reappropriating and stealing credit for another person's legitimate creative work.

Now imagine how much of humanity's history has had that kind of exploitation at the forefront of its worst moments, and consider what might lie ahead with those kind of impulses being given the rocket fuel of advanced information technology.

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