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I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)

As usual, nail right on the head. The largest problems with AI are absolutely NOT what AI is capable of, or what it would take to get it work, but the approach towards it by the people who'll nominally control it's destiny and just what a horrible way they've sold the whole endeavor.

thank you! in many ways the actual software is the least interesting or important part of all of this

100% The approach to making these tools usable, safe and valuable is critical to make this work. Selling this to bosses as wholesale labor replacement, not giving a shit about how models are trained, and being completely unethical about training data procurement undermines many of the upsides.

the technofascists also lobotomized all our regulators who'd enforce any sort of ethical and labor guardrails (if we had any), which I didn't really get into that is...bad

They turned 'Regulation' into a perjorative and look where we are now (don't read about the return of screwflies absolutely destroying livestock).

Why should a corporation exist if not to interalize profit while all negative externalities are to be borne by the poor fools dumb enough to live downwind or down stream?

why must you hate innovation so