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pluralistic: the alarmism around AI is just a marketing spin. (pluralistic.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The alarmism around AI is just a marketing spin.

As @[email protected] wrote: that's "mystical nonsense about spontaneous consciousness arising from applied statistics".

Real problems we face with AI are:

Ghost labor, erosion of the rights of artists, costs of automation, the climate impact of data-centers and the human impact of biased, opaque, incompetent and unfit algorithmic systems.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

Obviously, trivially, blatantly false, because the AI safety people have been at it since long before there was anything to market. Back then, the bullshit criticism was "AI will never be able to understand language or interpret pictures; what harm could it possibly ever do?"

[+] [email protected] -7 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Yeah and now it's just people fearmongering "AI is the worst thing to happen to artists, musicians, graphic designers - and it steals everyone's work! And and it might become Skynet! And and.." people who don't understand technology always seem to do this. They did it with Crypto, did it with NFTs, and now legitimate technologies have to escape a reputational black hole all because scammers and grifters decided to use it maliciously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

people who don’t understand technology always seem to do this. They did it with Crypto, did it with NFTs

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Crypto helped third world countries use a more stable form of currency than their government's. NFTs are no different from the serial codes on dollar bills except virtual. This is why you people are retarded. You know so little and make moronic comments like these.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yikes.

Your comment is entirely fact-free, it's almost impressive. There's no point refuting anything because it's clear nothing will change your mind, and I don't have to anyway because it's all been dismantled piece by piece already.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

https://vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-will-never-create-thinkcoin

I know it's hard to admit you've gambled big on a losing horse, but the solution is not to gamble bigger, it's to quit gambling.

Edited links for clarity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

it's all been dismantled piece by piece already.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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