And turning them into a consumer.

A mistake people often make is assuming that highlighting the downsides of AI means you’re anti-tech.

I am hugely pro-tech, but I think generative AI, on the path it’s currently on, will be net negative.

I think many feel the same.

Opposing AI boosterism ≠ being anti-tech.

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And why, after someone has attacked your family home, would you publicly post a picture of your family? I find it very hard to believe he’s that stupid.

Violence is terrible and I’m not condoning the attack. It just feels like the quickly published reaction blog post is evidence for the behaviour he is denying.

If I was a manipulative sociopath I’d use an attack on my home to sway public opinion back towards me. I’d use an image of my child and come across as a family man. I’d take the opportunity to frame a recent article as unfair. I’d even take a subtle jab at an opponent.

Criticising the part is not criticising the whole.

But would we really be surprised if the majority of people blindly follow LLMs?

Especially when they are so encouraging and nice to us, they tell us what we want to hear, and sound smart even when they’re wrong.

Not sure how robust the study is (small sample size) so will be interested to see more data over the next few years…

Alarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It's Totally Wrong Human users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up.

Seems obvious that this would where things go.

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Yes

Opus Nullius Your work belongs to no one. Well, except our Large Language Model.

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I know. That post is part of a larger thread. Just some AI doomer fiction…

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You could dismiss it as AI doomerism luddite thinking and leave it at that. But isn’t it useful to think about the risks and make decisions to prevent or mitigate them?

This may not happen but it is a possibility. Just like it’s a possibility that we reach AGI/ASI and the world becomes amazing and we all live happily ever after.

Right now it feels like this possibility or some variation of it could happen. Hopefully it doesn’t.

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It’s not useful to try to predict the future. It’s much more useful to think of all the possibilities and which ones are likely.

Companies have collapsed. Governments don’t know what to do. War is emotionless, unaccountable, waged with drones and AI.

Everyone feels spied on. Because they are.

Scams, identify theft and data breaches have been on the rise for years. Most of us have to wrestle with the option of giving up daily because it feels like the only option.

There’s talk of Universal Basic Income but it doesn’t sound like enough. It doesn’t give them their professions back either.

Jobless, poor, hungry, having lost a sense of meaning, the people march through the streets.

It doesn’t seem like it’ll achieve anything, but it’s something.

It’s 2028 and the first data centre is burned to the ground. Resentment has been rising for a while. The people, furious that their work has been taken from them without permission, then sold back to them, feel like they’re out of options.

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …

“…it’s less move fast and break things and more move fast and make broken things, because who cares, dipshits will pay for it.”

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I can’t wait to tell my kids that the 67 meme is officially over.

How do I know? It’s made its way to LinkedIn.

It’s okay to be a hater if everything is terrible.

brb updating my bio to “marketing genius”

Tempted to start an AI training business purely to use the tagline “We put the AI in training”.

You don’t think it’s valuable to be bored and use your imagination? To notice things? To be alone with you thoughts?

Structured play in clubs isn’t the same as unstructured play. Play in school is limited - affected by increasing social pressures, multiple groups, large numbers, supervision/rules.

Three plants having a jam YouTube video by BionicandtheWires

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Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard YouTube video by BionicandtheWires

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From: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art