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floofloof@floofloof@lemmy.ca

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingThe NerveCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
Phoenixz@phoenixz@lemmy.ca

Replying to @⁨floofloof@lemmy.ca⁩

What has AI changed so far?

  • Hardware prices are so far up that nobody can buy good hardware anymore
  • we have AI child porn now, awesome
  • we have AI undressing apps, cool
  • we have AI, the great cheat tool now † we have AI, the confidently wrong 20% of the time tool
  • we have AI, the great misinformation tool
  • we are at the brink of the largest economic collapse in human history caused again by the rich loving to play Russian roulette
  • there are a limited amount of actual useful applications as well, yay

And all it cost us were millions of jobs, thousands of psychosis and deaths, hundreds of new loud polluting data centers, untold amounts of co2 when were right smack in the mids of a climate crisis…

I’m not advocating for murdering the AI CEOs, but I’m definitely a fan of at least permanent tarring and feathering

Jason2357@Jason2357@lemmy.ca

Replying to @⁨Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world⁩

If it weren’t for the overwhelming harm and the insane ramblings of those pushers, we could actually rationally discuss all of the useful things that can be done with it. There are plenty - its a pretty good tool in any engineers toolbox - but there’s no point in itemizing them because the much greater issue is the ai psychosis taking over our entire financial, economic, and governmental systems.

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