Generative AI Is a Disaster, and Companies Don't Seem to Care

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The main idea behind "AI" is not to make our lives easier. Instead, it is a good weapon to blackmail workers for abandoning whatever rights they still have.

It largely does away with the need for a lot of work and thus workers.

Don't worry, the coming rise of the welfare dependency state will provide.

Heard and interesting talk about AI being described through the metaphor of Molock. If you really entertain the thought experiment, is is interesting to see the world race for power, control of its tech.

It’s a massive game changer, being able to make a drawing of Mickey Mouse doing 9/11 doesn’t mean a thing towards whether it’s a success or not. Anyone can make a drawing of that, it’s not special. Certain people are so obsessed with safety that if it were up to them we’d still be living in trees until someone invented a fire nobody could burn themself with.

If it was such a game changer beyond creative uses, why haven’t you boarded an AI piloted plane with zero humans supervising it yet or stopped double checking whatever these LLMs are saying?

Looks like beyond creative uses, they are not the game changers that they claim to be and are untrustworthy in general.

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