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I'm going to be honest, I'm not confident in the future of AI and think it would've been ultimately better if it weren't invented to begin with.
I know that it can have genuinely incredible applications that would benefit humanity as a whole, namely healthcare, accident prevention (like with airplanes, ships, shuttles, workplace related, etc.), and weather/natural disaster predictions. I'd love if that were all that it could do.
But I've also seen AI in warfare, surveillance, and policing used to seriously harm innocent people. Employers are already using AI to unfairly filter people out of jobs, and I believe black rock also uses AI to buy up properties. Not to mention that jobs like illustrators, writers, musicians, etc will all inevitably be replaced by their employers looking to consolidate workplace power from unions and increase profit margins.
Boycotting AI art is one way to slow down its growth that I can think of, but what else can be done?
It needs to be regulated and curbed before it's too late.
I'm gonna be honest, it was sort of inevitable. We have a much larger amount of silicon computing than we know what to do with; that's unsurprising when it's powered by the imperial pastime of destroying entire continents of people. And machine learning is essentially little more than fitting a particularly nasty unknown function and then throwing so much data and computing at it that you get somewhere. Machine learning at its core uses math that feels inevitable in its application towards "AI."
I think you’re pretty much spot-on. The actual math behind most machine learning algorithms isn’t THAT complicated, and with tons of computational power, eventually someone was going to stumble into the ideas.
Also, the cats kind of out of the bag. We should use it as a tool to organize around, or even help us organize in general. But I think boycotting it feels like a distraction.
if i could beam one small idea indelibly into people it would be that we have essentially technologically solved distribution and production. the amount of people versus the amount of people that can be sustained with thoughtful organization of resources and labor has never been more in favor of human life. if it weren't for capitalists' dedication to literally burning it for all this really dumb AI bullshit. even the AI ideas could be more useful imo applied to actually appropriate contexts and ideas.
could literally have reasonable early FALGSC right now.
i want to tear my hair out because all the technology, organizational capability, global systems, and productive capability is right. fucking. here. now.
we're running out of time