RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@sjslocombe/116244573318809666
Pair this with #EdZitron 's work, and it's not looking good for #AI
I think the key point is that, even though this technology can be useful (and sometimes amazing) it is not useful on the SCALE it's being pushed at.
From @Zitron
"By giving warmongers and jingoists the cover to 'trust' this 'authoritative' service — whether or not that’s the case, they can simply point to the specious press — the ethical concern of whether or not an attack was ethical or not is now, whenever any western democracy needs it to be, something that can be handed off to Claude, and justified with the cold, logical framing of 'intelligence' and 'data.'
None of this would be possible without the consistent repetition of the falsehoods peddled by #OpenAI and #Anthropic . Without this endless puffery and overstatements about the 'power of AI,' we wouldn’t have armed conflicts dictated by what a chatbot can burp up from the files it’s fed. The deaths that follow will be a direct result of those who choose to continue to lie about what an LLM does."
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