Yesterday, had an argument with an AI booster.
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I'm not sure I'd say "AI doesn't work" anymore. It definitely doesn't "work" to the degree that the loudest boosters will claim it does. But like, I do think it's recently crossed a threshold where it can be a useful tool in the right hands.
Which I personally find very annoying since I too have moral qualms about the broader AI industry. E.g. the point about surveillance you're making I think is an important one.
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AI doesn't work¹, so it's easy to forget that larger point, I suspect? That *even if* AI did work (and again, it doesn't), it still would need to be critically examined from an ethical perspective.
Failing to do so is how we have massive surveillance networks today.
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¹Here again, referring to the wave of current hype products. Boosters love wearing the ML shit that does work as a shield against criticism.The stuff which does work - is in its infancy, anyway.
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AI doesn't work¹, so it's easy to forget that larger point, I suspect? That *even if* AI did work (and again, it doesn't), it still would need to be critically examined from an ethical perspective.
Failing to do so is how we have massive surveillance networks today.
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¹Here again, referring to the wave of current hype products. Boosters love wearing the ML shit that does work as a shield against criticism.@xgranade A respectable* member of my entourage once told me, "I'd sell crack if I could without endangering my family." I think that's a testament on how fragile that whole ethics thing is.
Some people will stop only once AI kills someone important enough to them. -
AI doesn't work¹, so it's easy to forget that larger point, I suspect? That *even if* AI did work (and again, it doesn't), it still would need to be critically examined from an ethical perspective.
Failing to do so is how we have massive surveillance networks today.
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¹Here again, referring to the wave of current hype products. Boosters love wearing the ML shit that does work as a shield against criticism.How would you define "work" in this context? By this I mean what claims are being made by the hype.
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Yesterday, had an argument with an AI booster. I'm not going to link, both because I don't want to platform that and because I don't want anyone to go harass them. But what I thought was very interesting was that I asked point-blank if there was any degree to which ethical problems with LLMs could make them not want to use AI — they told me no, there was not, and implied that they evaluated AI purely on the basis of its efficacy.
@xgranade The way that I personally interpret cases like this is a sort of "just world" belief. If it was truly bad, surely it would not be allowed? If there was a real problem, there would be some kind of higher power that stops it.
This also aligns with conversations where I point out that this stuff is heavily subsidized and the person says "well, it's free/cheap now", with no further elaboration. The implication is: "I will use it because I can. If it was bad to use, it would not have been usable."
If you believe that the status quo is good and just, then you don't need to consider anything outside of your immediate gratification. The consequences are someone else's problem. Once the rockets go up...
