AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
  • big_slap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    im happy Microsoft dumped all their chips into AI. gonna be fantastic when it goes sideways

  • shameless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve seen multiple articles over the past few days, I seriously hope we are now seeing the downfall of AI. I seriously hope we can return back to creating meaningful technology.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
    19·
    10 hours ago

    This is a good read even if you’re not a fan of doctorow yet.

    Like another commenter said, his thoughts about centaurs and reverse centaurs are cool (basically whether you use technology or technology uses you).

    Also his thoughts about copyright and if it would be good to reinforce it are interesting - he says that artists won’t be paid well if their art can’t be stolen for AI training, their contracts will be adjusted and that’s it. He says what gives bargaining power is the fact that the output of LLMs can’t be copyrighted, which means that human artists have to be in the loop of making tomorrows media.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      the fact that the output of LLMs can’t be copyrighted

      That may be the status quo right now, but I expect tech and media companies will fight tooth and nail to gain copyright protections over the slop they generate. A few bribes donations to the right politicians and you can get legislation that grants whatever rights you want.

    • edible_funk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      4 hours ago

      I agree with him in general about AI but hot goddamn the man gives serious self-described philosopher/cult leader/grifter vibes out the wazoo.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        59 minutes ago

        I agree somewhat, but I think it’s just that he’s US-american, they can be like that

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        How’s that?

        AI bros do venerate science-fiction writers an unhealthy amount. Fictional fearmongering like “AI2027” is taken as fact, an actual AI doomsday cult leader has no credentials except publishing fantasy fiction, people like Neal Stephenson are treated almost as prophets etc… So if that’s the bit of the article you take issue with, I don’t think it’s a problem