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

Everyone knows the benefits of the internet existing so I won't go into them but without it I never would've met my boyfriend and a lot of my close friends so the perspective that it's been largely detrimental is wild to me. I think anyone who feels that way is taking the benefits of it for granted and is overly focusing on the negatives. And it is a matter of debate yeah, that's why I've been bringing up various use cases as a way to show how the technology is already having significant benefits since the positives often go unnoticed compared to the negatives.

In general a lot of this is that a ton of the benefits are a future thing. Like the technology is already doing massive things like helping out medical research, scientific research in general and letting self driving cars be developed so huge future benefits are already baked in at this point so for me I'm taking that into account in my perspective of it. While just how exactly impactful AI will become is up in the air it's already clear that it's gonna help save a lot of lives and prevent a lot of suffering in the future and that's easily worth all the current negatives. Since a lot of the current positives are more in the background so aren't directly impacting most people yet a way to think of this is it's like going through some discomfort for a period of time to reap a ton of rewards later on.

If AI is already causing numerous problems from mass layoffs to stealing people's works to the enshittification of the internet, how do we know it won't get worse and worse rather than better over time?

Is a world of digital and political dystopia under the boot of AI systems and the billionaires and politicians who control them really worth self driving cars?

Mass layoffs only need to be a temporary issue. A world where all the work required to keep society running is being taken care of by AI systems and robots letting people do whatever they want with their time would make concepts like unemployment rate not matter any more. Governments are gonna need to be ready to handle the period between now and then though.

In general there are indeed future concerns like authoritarian regimes using the technology to crack down on dissent and entrench their rule but overall I very much expect the good to outweigh the bad since the good stuff that's already baked in is massive and that sort of world I mentioned is such a strong end goal that I really think something as disastrous as a Skynet sort of scenario would have to happen for the bad to outweigh the good long term.