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usedbytes

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usedbytes··on AI Policy
There are people with literally thousands of hours spent in WoW or Counter Strike. I don’t think you can talk about anything in absolutes can you?
usedbytes··on AI Policy
I’m not expressing judgement either way, I just think it’s interesting to observe the parallels (yes cars, planes, guns too)
usedbytes··on AI Policy
Yes, not literally s/AI/computers/.

Computers have produced untold exabytes of spam. Hit pieces, security vulnerabilities and data leaks, creation and distribution of CSAM… Copyright infringement on an unprecedented scale, massive increase in water and electricity consumption. etc.

usedbytes··on AI Policy
I feel like you could replace “AI” with “computers” across much of TFA and it would read like something from a few decades ago (ignoring the web development specifics…)

That lends some credence to the “AI is a tool” position I hear in some forums, though I do think there are real harms from the vast scale of AI deployment.