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Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

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[–] brasilikum@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my opinion, both can be true and it’s not either one or the other:

ML has surprised even many experts, in so far as a very simple mechanism at huge scale is able to produce some aspects of human abilities. It does not seem strange to me that it also reproduces other human abilities, like hallucinations. Maybe they are closer related then we think.

Company leaders and owners are doing what the capitalistic system incentives them to do: raise their companies value by any means possible, call that hallucinating or just marketing.

IMO it’s the responsibility of government to make sure AI does not become another capital concentration scheme like many other technologies have, widening the gap between rich and poor.

[–] DudePluto@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Private-owned AI competing against humans for limited jobs in a capital based market is a nightmare.

Public-owned AI producing and providing for all is not.

AI was trained on the work of millions and is inhuman in its productive capabilities. It has no business being private owned