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I hate to sound like a 19 year old on Reddit but:

AI People: "AI is a completely unprecedented technology where its introduction is unlike the introduction of any other transformative technology in history! We must treat it totally differently!"

Also AI People: "You're worried about nothing, this is just like when people were worried about the internet."

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The internet analogy is apt because it was in fact a massive bubble, but that bubble popping didn't mean the tech went away. Same will happen again, which is a point both extremes miss. One would have you believe there is no bubble and you should dump all your money into this industry, while the other would have us believe that once the bubble pops all this AI stuff will be debunked and discarded as useless scamware.

Well the internet has definitely changed things; but also it wasnt initially controlled by a bunch of megacorps with the same level of power and centralisation today.

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