• very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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    The idea of AI is not the problem.

    For many of us, the idea is also the problem. Stealing the collected works of humanity in order to build a machine meant for delegating the thinking and feeling parts of the human experience is deeply antisocial, and an attack on our dignity as people

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      Which is why it was supposed to be an open technology with no profits as its a culmination of humanity. Nobody should own it or make a profit from its creation.

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        delegating the thinking and feeling parts of the human experience

        This would be a problem even if the technology were completely free and open. LLMs poison peoples minds and make them boring, helpless and stupid.

        If Facebook were a nonprofit, it would still be terrible for people.

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          I don’t know. I think Facebook took a turn when it was engineered to boost engagement. Otherwise, it’s just a forum for friends to make posts. What’s wrong with that, in theory?

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        Even if that happened it would still be a terrible technology. The damage to the environment isn’t worth it.

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      deeply antisocial

      It doesn’t really have to be. The problem is that the profits that comes from that machine are not spread among the working people - that would be the social way to implement it.

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        That’s only one of many harms it does to the human experience. Look at a company like Facebook. Do you think socializing that industry and sharing the profits with the users would mitigate the harms it does to our lives? I sure don’t.

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          It in fact would, because there would be no incentive to keep it like it is - it would never have been made so bad if it was a democratic decision.

          Facebook and Co. is bad today because there’s a conflict of interest between users and shareholders, and Zuckerberg chose the shareholders cause they line his pockets. This conflict would not exist if it was democratic.

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      It’s the execution. Both in it’s used wrong and that the people wont benefit.