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  • If you tried to digest every piece of intellectual property ever created by humans for free, they would lock you up. But OpenAI and Meta get to do it, and sell you a subscription to the AI they created with it - Making Zuck and Altman richer than God by destroying the ability for artists to make a living, and making every bit of art created from now on a shitty derivative pasted together by an AI from the memory of human art. It’s an episode of Black Mirror.


  • Thanks for your reply. Here are my rebuttals:

    Is AI killing the planet, or is capitalism and addiction to fossil fuels?

    Capitalism was already killing the planet, but the rush to invest in AI has demonstrably accelerated it.

    If AI was 100 renewable and run based on community consent, would it still be “killing the planet”?

    No. But thats not the scenario we are in.

    In what way does AI “steal” in any way more significantly than an artist uses another artist for inspiration or a coder uses another open source project for their code?

    Because artists are people with consciousness and feeling and the capability for novel thought. AI is not. Believing it’s doing the same thing as human thinking is being suckered by the hype.

    Even the people creating AI know it’s not “thinking”. They call AI that actually “thinks” AGI and believe they will someday create it by pushing AI further, as long as we give them all of our money (trust me bro).

    How does AI widen inequality worse than it has been already, and is that solely the result of AI or is it just a product of capitalism?

    This is a big one, but without guardrails it’s inarguably poised to hurt working people and enrich the powerful, which therefore drives further inequality (which yes, was already bad as a product of modern capitalism). And those guardrails are not in place, and will not be put into place if we just follow along as they want us to.



  • hesh@quokk.autoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldWhy do people hate AI so much?
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    Kills the planet

    Steals from artists

    Widens inequality

    Puts people out of work

    Reinforces prejudices

    Makes us stupid

    Makes everything generic

    Blows up the economy

    Supports oligarchs

    Can’t be trusted, hallucinates and lies

    Overhyped & overpromised

    Can’t generate outside of its training data

    Is creating obscene surveillance state

    Used in weapons to kill

    Made computer components expensive

    Ruined the internet with slop

    Replaces human interaction

    Just annoying