alt Hacker NewsIn hindsight, they were entirely correct.
The social damage caused by low cost content generation that’s hard to distinguish from human authorship is astronomical. You don’t need to entertain the more ridiculous doomsday scenarios to wish that this technology had never been created.
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A lot of low cost content generation would've come regardless with something like 50% of the developing world getting access to mobile internet between 2018-2026 and social media incentivizing certain types of content (monetizing). But AI certainly didn't help.
What is the astronomical social damage that this has caused?
I am having so much trouble relating to and even understanding what the anti-AI crowd's position is. It looks like a caricature to me.
I don't want to stop progress just because its hard to imagine how it will transform our society.
I want to see a Star Trek economy/society in my lifetime. I only life once.
Btw. AI/LLM/Machine learning is the gateway technology for robotics, this will affect even more.
Countries without Internet access will see their population IQ explode.
Of course, this damage could still be enabled with just hosted access to the models, restricting access to the model files themselves did not stop that
I certainly cannot survive much more of the AI memes generated about our so-called Commander in Chief with a fake bodybuilder mystique... you are absolutely correct, this kind of material is psychologically damaging. And a huge distraction from the genocide by the "best friend and ally" of the US. Heart wrenching and extremely damaging hasbara - just please stop, haven't you stolen and killed enough guys? This is _not_ the old American West when communications were few and it was most often a tale of solitary survival. It's organized Nazi-esque kill, command and control, enable by so-called AI to take some guilt off the shoulders of those pushing buttons and pulling triggers.
>In hindsight, they were entirely correct.
Sure but when serial grifter Sam Altman said it was "too dangerous" what he meant was that he wanted regulators to create him an artificial competitive moat so Anthropic et al couldn't catch up.
Serial grifter Sam Altman does not care about anything but making money, and certainly doesn't care about ethics. That's why serial grifter Sam Altman's company trained its models on pirated textbooks and copyrighted works without paying. Rules for thee but not for me.
Serial grifter Sam Altman doesn't care if society unravels because he is so rich that laws and consequences do not apply to him.
On the other hand, maybe it makes people just get off the internet and value in-person interactions more.
I've stopped scrolling social media and tired of seeing fake landscapes, fake foods, and fake cities that don't exist.