PaulWayJun 6, 2023

I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:

* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?

And not:

* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?

Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.

It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.

The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.

Show threadmiki
@PaulWay This is a simplistic take. The right question to ask is “will corporations who don’t do these things be forced to do as everybody else does or go out of business?” In a competitive market, you don’t need malice, because if you aren’t ruthless enough, others will be, and you won’t exist any more.
Jun 7, 2023 at 12:11amWeb
Show threadOpenDNA⚙️Jun 7, 2023

@miki @PaulWay That assumes that all markets are free markets of commodity products in which quality is irrelevant and lowest price always wins.

That exists almost nowhere. Anywhere you see a restaurant or brand or construction site, you are seeing falsification of that model. Likewise, that Amazon and Apple, and every single investment bank, are still in business.