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curl-6 1 day ago
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ConciousMan said:
curl-6 said:

I'd contend that the evidence is overwhelming that AI is terrible for the world and society, so saying it's a good thing is akin to saying the Earth is flat.

Just a few years ago the world got along perfectly fine without AI, and in a short space of time it's done immense damage, from the enshittification of the internet to mass layoffs to deepfake CP/Revenge porn, to the erosion of critical thinking skills, and so on. 

We simply don't need it and it causes more problems than it solves.

Sorry, I don't think you see that the problem is not AI, but the current state of the world and political system. Our societal systems are not ready for the majority of people to quit their jobs and do what that want to be masterful at. The problem lies in how people build the tool and use it, not the tool itself. Imagine the world where humans couldn't create a machine that generates electricity. Would we have video games or consoles?

A push back against advancement in technology will limit growth and cause greater problems. Right now more humans are dying because of something else rather than AI and those matters should be addressed first IMO.

The tool itself enables the misuse though, so it's still a problem facilitated by said tool. Yes, people are dying of other things, but people were dying of other things back when we as a society adopted CFCs or lead or Agent Orange, yet those things still should have been resisted and not embraced despite them representing technical innovations.