My problem with comparing "AI" to things like leaded gas, drugs, even tulips, is that those things were *useful*.
Like, leaded gas was a bad idea but you could put it in a car and vroom vroom.
Drugs are fun. Sorry, they are.
Tulips are beautiful. Flowers brighten your day.
"AI"? It's just garbage technology poison that makes everything it touches - humans, the internet, art, books, news, science, history, language - much, much worse. It burns and dries the planet for this privilege, too.
@johnzajac That's the thing, I've seen it compared to both clothes washing machines and the internet ---- but I don't see how in any manner they're comparable to either.
On the laundry machines, no one suddenly installed them in over 50% of the places people lived without said people even being allowed to refuse said machines easily, as has happened with most computers of all sizes & having gone years without a laundry machine & finding the AIs I've wanted to refuse but couldn't really being added hardships, if anything view them more like a stream forced into the middle of my home!
The internet similarly- when I was a little kid most didn't have it in their homes, nor computers but I did & it helped me- as a disabled kid- a great deal.
Mostly what AIs do is repeat & reinforce errors in typing I make due to my mostly lifelong medical conditions, so this force/coercion is a step backwards & it's why I'm switching to computer systems without embedded AIs.
It also regurgitates the lowest commonalities & thusly least accurate data among the social & hard sciences alike, which makes it a bigotry enforcer by default.
John
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