I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:
• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.
• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.
• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.
@nileane the timing is also not helping. Back in 2016 a lot of us realized how powerful and how fucked up big tech can be and the impact it can have in our world, misinformation being a big thing!
Did we try to solve this? No, we invested in AI where it's like throwing gasoline into a fire where we have no way of knowing if anything is true or not. What could go wrong?
… but it sounds like Scarlet Johansson!
@nileane @rafa Where we fail, is at realizing that our societal systems necessarily lead to these outcomes, and then at thinking about how we can fix them.
It makes no sense to expect capitalists living in capitalism to not act capitalistic while so many incentive structures motivate them to do so.
It's not helpful to sit here and think "this is stupid, this is harmful" of course it is. It makes some people money and so it happens..same as endless masses of plastic crap and commuting to work.
Niléane
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