Tim Bray10h ago

1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conversation on the subject because the trillion-dollar bet’s fear+greed pressure crowds out truth.
4. When the bubble pops, the shitty people will melt away. Then we can maybe figure it out.
5. We so *SO* need that bubble to pop. Next week would be ideal.

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The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings

The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators.

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Show threadJohn9h ago
@timbray the UBI seems like the answer but curiously off the map of late
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@buckfiftyseven @timbray UBI as a "solution" for creeping GenAI would be a sticking plaster. A poor compensation. Like someone hacking off a limb and then saying "but I've paid your rent!".

Great. I don't have to worry about rent. But you've still affected my life for the worse and I can't do all the things that I used to enjoy, just because of your actions!

UBI would still leave the environmental impact, the social impact, the creative impact and the exploitative arseholes. It's just that people wouldn't have to worry about enshittification (or terminating) of their jobs as much.

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