Joe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad)

Worth repeating: AI platforms built by greedy tech CEOs aren't "making mistakes" they are working as designed

Part of that design is undermining experts, removing human connection & trust, and hiding decision making

Those are the things that make our communities work, and the more we lose them, the worse things get

Mar 22 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threadspdrnl1d ago

@joecardillo This is the same point as Bernie Sanders made.

The billionaire fog is indeed making it hard so assess if and how AI could serve humanity.

Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n28Dp0IZQY

Show threadKim Crawley 😷 (she/her)1d ago

@spdrnl @joecardillo

Bernie Sanders is full of shit and stands for nothing other than being allied with the Dems and Israel. Quote a non politician in the Gen AI resistance.

Show threadJoe Cardillo (Disinfo Dad)1d ago

@kimcrawley @spdrnl Yeah, my perspective is politicians are not the lead on describing or solving this problem, for ex. in NM our senior US Senator Martin Heinrich has been in step with major AI investors trying (and so far succeeding) to dominate the conversation re: ethics / guardrails: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362

As you were noting in another thread @spdrnl that's connected closely to the fake race science stuff we see in the TESCREAL bundle that Dr. Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres outlined

How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI companies with ties to the network.

Politico
Show threadDavid Culley1d ago

@[email protected] @joecardillo This is NOT the same argument that Bernie Sanders made. Bernie only parroted the propaganda of Dario Amodei. It passes for an advertisement for Claude.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116263059435507317

Timnit Gebru (she/her). (@[email protected])

Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him. Amodei positions Anthropic as the ethical alternative to OpenAI just like OpenAI positioned itself as the ethical alternative to Google in 2015 and everyone ate it up. This was an article from then, the headline says that Muskrat, Thiel, Altman + friends founded an "altruistic AI venture" 🙄 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344

Distributed AI Research Community
Show threadspdrnl1d ago

@joecardillo Not sure what is happening here.

Edit: bots were out on this thread, this is a snapshot of the profile. Message is gone now.

Show threadcraignicol1d ago
@joecardillo experts have a habit of saying no. And then getting their bosses in trouble when the boss does it anyway.
Show threadSister Lucy Fur1d ago
@joecardillo Excellent idea, Satan, there....let's privatize that community connection & trust! Then we can rent it back to you....and that air you're breathing there. I think I should own that! Yrs, Petey Thiel, psychobabbler.
Show threadNorm Tovey-Walsh1d ago
@joecardillo if I could boost something twice…
Show threadDying World 🔥🌎🔥1d ago

@joecardillo Call it late stage capitalism, #enshittification, or whatever you want, but tech companies have realised that they don't need to keep consumers happy in order to succeed.

We have been the product for a long time now. The real customers are other corporations. They sell each other our personal information and the tools to control us

Show threadAssimilateborg1d ago
@joecardillo well not especially designed. It's just that they are "good enough". Instead of not producing bullshit and being actually helpful, we get the most lowest quality possible. The lowest quality barely enough to be a selling argument. It is for sure possible to make a better thing, but that costs more money, so it's not done. It's pure capitalism. And I hope this shit implodes in their face.
Show threadLaura Perry17h ago
@assimilateborg @joecardillo I have the sense that problem is that when it implodes (and it inevitably will), it will be in all our faces.
Show threadAdam1d ago

@joecardillo

Implied but also worth repeating is this removes accountability when bad or unpopular decisions are made.

A.I. is a tireless and uncomplaining scapegoat when shit hits the fan, and no body can tell you how the decisions were made, who made them, or why