Fuck AI

Everyone on dot world needs the old fbi hard drive scan imo

Pardon me if I don't find this argument compelling...

Its not helpful to discredit a technology by saying it helps generate porn/csam. This is just a cheap way to moralise the issue, which is used all the time e.g. to justify mass surveillance, shutting down any objections as supporting child abuse.

AI should be opposed because it concentrates power in the hands of tech oligarchs.

War is bad, we should all just stop it guys.

Hands are used by the bad guys to create cp, have you cut your hands off yet?

This is an impassioned but somewhat unhinged rant. I sympathize with it but thinking rationally you can’t just make it illegal and expect all the bad things to go away. It’s already illegal to make revenge porn or pornographic material without the subjects consent. It’s already illegal to create and share csam. Making AI illegal isn’t going to make those things super duper illegal and magically make them go away forever.

As far as AI displacing human jobs, I agree its usage by corporations needs to be regulated and taxed so that displaced workers get paid a human dividend. Eventually we’d all need a human dividend as a UBI if AI does what the bros say it will.

AI isn’t “fascist propaganda” any more than the printing press was. They're blaming a tool for the actions of people.

Yes, there are serious issues: privacy, misinformation, exploitation; but reducing it all to “AI is evil” is lazy, alarmist nonsense.

They're not critiquing tech; they're moralizing to a crowd that already agrees with them. If you want change, start making arguments, not doomposts.

The world doesn’t have to be this way. We don’t have to indulge the cruelest among us.

Most of human history would tend to disagree. If there’s one thing we do consistently it’s indulge cruelty.

I swear, anti-AI people like this are the modern day reactionary Luddites.

It's a pandora's box that has been opened, you can't simply just "Fight this! Stop telling them kill your soul!" - how does one fight AI exactly, by screaming into social media? Begging politicians to ban it or something even though the fundamental system we live in puts corporate interests above everything else (and for cases when they do go too far the best you can hope is a fine or some compromise)?

Also, it's important to realize that all the evils attributed to the AI at the top aren't inherent to the AI, but rather symptoms of our current system of commodity-production and wealth-accumulation. The blame is being pointed at the wrong thing here. let me give some examples:

• Slop isn't inherent to the AI, low-effort content that's quick to produce has been the meta of online content creation if one wants to maximize clicks/ad revenue for the labor used to create the video. Scams too - AI or no AI they've always been there. Sure, with AI there's more of it but I argue the issue lies with slop and scams being viable in the first place. Same applies for the "Destroying the usable internet" point.

• Taking people's jobs is part of technological advancement, and is a good thing given how that labor sector is now fully automated, meaning humans don't need to work on it anymore and can use their gained time freely. However we live under Capitalism where this is a negative due to how fundamentally wages and skilled labor work. Be angry at the system for being nonsensical, not at a machine that alleviates labor.

• It's accelerating climate change like any factory, and the problem comes not from the existence of the factory, but from the commodity model that leads to overproduction, and therefore creation of more CO2 than is necessary for human life to thrive.

• Misinformation and "Fascist" propaganda has existed without AI, and to even create it using AI there need to be people thinking about the message and spreading it - it's not something AI can create autonomously and is rather a byproduct of liberal democratic system.

• Violation of privacy is up to social medias and governments, not AI's.

This is how all new technology works. It's new and scary for some. It can be used for both good and bad.

And it might succeed or fail at the end. I'm not afraid.

I'm aware this is a huge nitpick, but call it csam not cp. It's exploitative and depicts abuse and should be labelled that whenever it's mentioned.

I'm starting to think this is the point these days. Maybe not in the beginning, but nowadays they seem to not only be pushing it harder but are straight up ignoring the obvious issues. Like, they don't even acknowledge the issues anymore. And the US government, the country where most of these companies are based, is not only ignoring the issue, but actively making it harder to regulate and easier to abuse. And I'm sure they welcome the misinformation created as a godsend.

There is no solution, the tech industry and venture capital will make us use AI in everything. Paying with my wallet doesn't work because every tech company wants me to use AI no matter what. I try to get rid of every product that adds AI elements but they keep on coming. This tech is inefficient and wastes money but the investors want a profit and they will get it with or without your consent and with no repercussions either way.

The cruelest in society are always supported by the dumbest in society