@goku12 The updated EU Product Liability Directive explicitly assigns liability for psychological damage.

@bms48 That's a relief! But honestly, the only way to get these companies to play by the rules is to not let them play at all. Kick them off the market! Otherwise they'll treat the penalties as a cost of doing business. They themselves are suffering from Psychosis, with nihilistic delusions about everything other than money and hallucinations of cold cash in practically everything they see. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAop4Su5Uag

@goku12 They are busy trying to externalize the con right now with the IPO attempts, and a push by their "golden boy" startups towards "fast disposable software", which is completely at odds with that of life-supporting infrastructure. They have significant marketing budgets and are "flooding the zone" constantly, despite lay people being keenly aware of the limtiations of LLM-based GenAI systems. Kate Crawford, 7 pages into "Atlas of AI" in 2021, warned everyone of what could happen.

@bms48 Absolutely! Though, I saw a post by a late GenZ developer in a tech forum on the lines of "How do senior managers cope with working alongside young AI-enabled polymaths".
I don't know what sort of delusion this is. But his lack of awareness about basic etiquette and his own limitations scares me. They seem to overestimate the level of creativity in AI - something that is actually based on memorized human responses. I worry about the world they'll create.

@bms48 Another one of my worries is that these techno-fratbois are conducting a huge snake oil sales scam. They're in a massive circular deal and are also stifling the critical digital components market (esp DRAMs) for their datacenters.
But when it finally collapses like a castle of cards, they will just cash out their corporate welfare benefits and leave the rest of us with a massive bill and a mess to clean up. Yes, they're externalizing the con.

@goku12 @bms48 Interestingly, Ed Zitron has been finding that the data centres aren't getting built and the chips haven't been getting delivered. The entire USA tech sector has turned into a massive Ouroboros-like human centipede of fraud across a breathtaking scope of domains. Engineering fraud, pump-and-dump Ponzi stock manipulation, massive accounting fraud and more. Supposedly banks are already getting tight-fisted as the endless torrent of Gulf monarchy money propping much of it up was finally ended by Iranian missile strikes. My bet is that it's going to make 2008 look like a fixed-income elderly widow emptying her purse of pocket change into a slot machine and unsurprisingly getting nothing back.

@nyc @goku12 I just got done reading "Superpower Suicide" 2 mins ago: https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpower-suicide

@goku12 @nyc "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming, "James Bond: Goldfinger"
In many ways this is exactly what the RAND Corporation were asked to do during the Cold War, and partly why they built the fricking ARPANET in the first place; don't take my word for it, watch Adam Curtis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
And for a more fun take on it, Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles":
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-invisibles-vol-1-grant-morrison/1000154351

@goku12 @nyc And if you want to know part of how the ARPANET was built: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/547625
https://archive.org/details/elementsofnetwor00padl