i agree but it’s not due to or about AI but more about polarisation of society in general: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/psychologylse/2023/06/08/building-br...

Because discourse around AI has devolved into eschatological thinking. The stakes are potentially high where the ceiling might be superintelligence and the floor total economic collapse, humans will just default to apocalyptic thinking. All discussion ceases to be technical and instead becomes religious.

Once people have convinced themselves that the stakes are existential, any nuance or moderate thinking feels like complicity.

So now because of that, a perfectly reasonable policy about copyright gets reframed as a battle for the future of humanity becausae we are no longer discussing tech, we are discussing what amounts to opposing religious beliefs.

We really haven’t. It’s always been this bad.

For me I’m a late adopter. I’ve seen more things go than stay. I’ll wait until the industry has stabilised or evaporated before making a decision. It’ll save me time and money.

I don't know, it feels like the GCC steering committee's AI policy is sorta the definition of moderate speech.

They aren't coming out swinging on LLMs shouting it down as slop and calling anyone using it lazy. They just created some, reasonable to me, guidelines that about when the use is and is not allowed in their project.

Luckily we have the enlightened centrists to descend from their clouds to say nothing at all

"h0w dArE yOu..." /s