@davidgerard "They stole your code and your art, they built racism into their systems, they're eliminating your job or making it worse, they're enabling criminal fraud, they're trashing the environment, they're making computer hardware unaffordable, they're taking down your web site with their crawlers, and they’re about to crash the economy. Also, their technology is being used to drown out legitimate content with spam, push fascism, generate child porn, and target bombs at hospitals. So why won't you be civil to them and their fans? They just want to talk at you about exciting new uses for the technology, and bully you into accepting it by telling you it's inevitable and you'll be left behind if you don't use it. Your gatekeeping is a tragedy, we should be welcoming them to Mastodon, otherwise number won't go up."

@mathew @davidgerard And there is zero case for AI if and until these issues are rectified. Not explained away. Not dismissed. Not ignored and swept under the carpet. Rectified.

@reflex @davidgerard Absolutely. Show me ethically trained LLMs, with appropriately low power consumption, use cases that benefit society, and solid controls against surveillance and abuse, and I'll be interested. It's a shame the technology has become 99% the purview of the worst people.

@mathew @reflex @davidgerard be nice if they worked reliably, too