Cassandra is only carbon now1d ago
The thing I actually wanted to say about AI today, before the whole world jumped the shark yet again.
Show threadCassandra is only carbon now1d ago

Anyway, @zkat warned us. Talking about whether or not AI "works" was a trap, and always was. The ethical component is all that matters, and from that analysis alone, the onus is on all of us to reject and oppose AI.

Getting mired into whether or not it "works" is bad praxis in several ways: it de-emphasizes the ethics, it opens up to goalpost shifting about what it means for AI to "work," and it's easier for the boosters to Gish gallop or overwhelm with jargon.

Show threadCassandra is only carbon now1d ago
Sure enough, that's where we are now. I'm as guilty of that as anyone, to be sure. But like... all weekend, there have been so many new claims about AI "working," and every one takes a lot of effort to read critically and debunk. None of them change the ethical calculus.
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷

@xgranade I agree. That was one of my arguments months ago - GenAI rejection for ethical reasons shouldn't get side-tracked into the utility argument, because that shifts the focus to something one can genuinely argue about, and leads to the ethical argument being dismissed as "uninformed".

But the ethics are the point.

Apr 7 at 1:37pmWeb