Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.
Wait, what were we talking about?
@maxleibman Car transport is not controversial, even though it has
- bigger environmental impact
- massive cost of manufacturing and producing the energy for it
- environmental and cultural destruction via road building
- stress on its users who often go psychotic
- stress on bystanders by noise
- devaluation of human life
- losses of limb and health
- sustained by government subsidies to keep it "affordable"
Cars are much worse than AI. ✌️
#urbanism #warOnCars
@nicemicro @maxleibman imo, this is an insufferable way to try to promote the cause, as someone who is pro
#waroncars. AI hype is actively disrupting people's livelihoods and being promoted at us nonstop. People are mad about this issue and going "well actually, there are more important issues" in the replies of people's post isn't gonna win a lot of people over.
I'll grant that the question "why do some things which cause huge amounts of measurable harm not get the same attention as other things?" Is interesting but if you want to raise that, have some insights and make your own post. @corvid @maxleibman well I think is interesting to compare different issues, and see how people react.
I believe it is a good post for that reason, as the OP listed things they think are bad about AI, so I can give an itemized list of what things that are also pushed down our throats by megacorps (but have been for so long we don't even notice) and see the differences / similarities is informative, and it is important to keep things in perspective.
@corvid @maxleibman also, on a more personal note, I responded to this post because it was boosted by an account who "spams" a lot of anti-AI stuff, but is also a proud "I-will-never-take-public-transit-or-ride-a-bike" car person 😅
@nicemicro @maxleibman since the poster and the booster are different people, replying to the post won't reach the booster 🤷♀️
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