@dalias @slothrop The problem is not AI but who owns it. I think intellectual property is an abomination anyway, everything immaterial that can be infinitely copied at marginal cost needs to be free for everybody to use, copy, and distribute however they like. All the nonconfidential data should be in the public domain, freely available, all software should be free and open source, all designs for all material goods should be in the public domain so anybody can build a copy of anything without having to obtain a license. In fact, private property should not exist, everything should belong to everybody, no rich or poor people anymore, no countries or borders, just a planet of eight billion equals. The very idea that anybody can own anything they can't carry around in a bag needs to die. The very Earth on which we live doesn't belong to any of us, we belong to her, we're part of her, just like all the other organisms since the very first cell.
The invention of property in the late Stone Age was a step in the wrong direction. Intellectual property is where it all becomes completely absurd, how can you own anything that anybody can copy? The current AI hype is just a bunch of techbros trying to seize all the I.P. and make it theirs forever in order to become the Cyberlords of Technofeudalism since the end of Capitalism is already on the horizon. Using their own laws to defend the I.P. of citizens against the corporations is not going to work since I.P. has always been a tool of the capitalists. Instead, we need to dismantle even physical property, nobody gets to own anything but a few personal possessions, everything else belongs to everybody, we need to restore the commons, abandon forced competition, and create cultures of cooperation and sharing where everything is free, both free as in speech and free as in beer, where money or markets don't rule our lives anymore.
There aren't any moderate futures left, the only futures still open to us are radical.

@LordCaramac @slothrop I don't read textwalls, but no the problem is not just who owns it. The problem is fundamental. "AI" is a machine for deception and destruction of knowledge. That's literally the precise optimization problem it's solving: how to rapidly generate content that humans will be likely to misinterpret as the product of intelligence and creativity. I do not want a world where this is ok because the "good guys" are the ones doing it. I want anyone doing it to be perceived as the scum they are.

@dalias @slothrop AI is just a research field of computer science, the part where we try to solve complex problems for which humans need their intelligence with computers. There has been a lot of progress in a small part of AI research lately, Machine Learning (ML), not because of any fundamentally new breakthroughs but because computers are finally powerful and available data collections finally big enough. All those huge proprietary models are quite impressive but actually not that useful, but there are much smaller, often more specialised, open source AI projects that anybody can run on a big PC or workstation at home or in the office without the need for a computing centre. Even AI training doesn't necessarily need a big computing centre, it's possible to use systems like BOINC instead where anybody who's interested in seeing a certain open source AI model finished could just donate CPU and GPU cycles, running a tiny part of the training process on their own computer.