Baldur BjarnasonI've been seeing people say the harms of "AI" comes from shitty people, not the tech and that the shitty people will go away after the bubble pops. While the first part is true in the strictest sense (contrary to claims, these are not autonomous systems) it's not really true in a practical sense. The harms are designed in and the "shitty human beings" won't go away.
Generative models and automated decision-making systems are political projects. They are tools for fencing off sectors of our society for rent, for cutting back on education and healthcare for the poor, for removing accountability. They are inherently tools for removing humans from the equation. They are not neutral in their design. Their existence has a political purpose
Ben Rosengart@baldur Look at how these things are built and marketed. Stolen artistic and intellectual production for the training set. Exploited African labor for the fine-tuning. Maximally wasteful training processes to shut out competition. Misleading packaging into first-person chatbots.
It’s layer upon layer of total contempt for workers, women, the environment, the customer. You can’t make something decent out of this unless you throw it all away and start over from first principles.
The slopvendors have built a *product* which they are falsely marketing as a *technology*.