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.

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@PaulWay Maybe I'm not looking in the right places but I don't see enough projects like freedomgpt or self hosted open source LLMs doing interesting things. Where is the Global south llm that can do simple tasks and run on recycled hardware, the indigenous LLM trained with ancestral knowledge, the healer LLM getting clinical tests passed through medical bodies for dandelion teas and honey and lemon or the coop LLM run collaboratively by friendly neighborhood anarchists? It's a shame that the whole ai world seems to be dominated by rich tech bros. I even heard the open ai chief programmer say he wants to get some AGI to "solve climate change" via carbon capture!? Its like all these people are asking the wrong questions because they don't know better.
Jul 7, 2023 at 7:31pmWeb