Ryujin
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Sad, really. Just more proof that social media companies are morally bankrupt.
Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
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overgeeked
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Well, capitalism as a whole really. The idea that nothing matters but profits is incompatible with life. Human or otherwise.
Having read a couple of books related to this topic (Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked for Facebook 2012-8, and How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa, an investigative journalist fighting misinformation and government exploitation of Facebook’s weaknesses in the Philippines) I think it’s very clear that Meta has never had any corporate ethics or functional oversight, and has never been interested in anything but profit and the share price, and I have no reason to believe that any large tech or social media company is any different (and some are actively worse, if Character Limit, which is about Twitter under Musk, is any indication).
Both examples are made exponentially worse by the board’s need to continually grow the company’s stock price, and it’s hard not to conclude that IPOs and being publicly traded remove any possibility of the company in question having any functional ethics or sense of responsibility. Healthcare insurance companies in the US are another excellent example, with United Health being sued by its investors after the death of its CEO for not pursuing the necessary “aggressive anti-consumer tactics” required to increase its stock price.
overgeeked
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What I'm really looking forward to is the time just after the corporations fire everyone and replace them all with “AI”. The corps will basically implode. That'll be fun to watch. You know...except for all the dead people, mass starvation, suffering, homelessness, poverty, etc.
"None of it worked.
But boy was it beautiful."
"None of it worked.
But boy was it beautiful."
GreyLord
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Zardnaar
Legend
Give it nuclear codes!!!
Scribe
Legend
The same homelessness, rampant drug use, poverty, dramatic increase in food Bank demand, social isolation we have now, just amplified?!
"LOL you Luddites just hate technology!"
Right, or we can look at the last decade and say "No thanks."
overgeeked
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No. This would be so much worse. Remember in the early bits of the pandemic when everyone was panic buying and the shelves were empty? It only took what...a few weeks. Now imagine that...only it never goes away...and the shelves are never restocked again. Societal collapse levels of chaos. A system controlled by “AI” that outputs hallucinations and will fight being revised or removed. Like the recent story of an LLM that blackmailed its creator over an affair to prevent itself from being changed or deleted. Put something like that in charge of the food supply.
Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer's affair to avoid being shut down
Don't tell AI your secrets.
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