Fav AI outcome out there...

[eatstoomuchjam]

The smug "it's just another tool" takes are, without a doubt, the most offensively stupid ones.

Yes, ignore the huge amount of societal harm that is inflicted by a tool that lets any jackass instantly create a nearly perfect deepfake of any other person on the planet, right down to their voice and manner of speaking, and it is indeed "just a tool."  While we're at it, let's just give the average person access to thermonuclear bombs which are, of course, "basically just another weapon" and "only bad if someone blows them up ."

[Emanuel]

That’s a category error: the tool isn’t the harm, misuse is.

You can’t break it. Go full Quijote aka Quixote (who is who? LOL Never mind X )

 

Much of this sounds like corporate self-preservation dressed up as principle.

History has a name for that drift: corporatism. Well, something Europe flirted with in the 1930s ; ) It didn’t end well; Portugal even wore the label officially.

We’ve seen where it leads.

 

Who we claim to be is irrelevant; what we do is what makes us. We aren’t what we say we are. We’re defined by what our hands actually show. Or reveal. Identity is cheap. Deeds are the proof.

 

Fear’s a bitch.

 

- EAG

[eatstoomuchjam]

12 hours ago, Emanuel said:

That’s a category error: the tool isn’t the harm, misuse is.

Again, this is an intensely wrong justification.  And there's not a single tool that was ever invented that some person didn't immediately start misusing.  It only took from July to August for my own country to go from demonstrating nuclear fission to dropping a fission bomb on a city full of civilians.

The perceived benefit of "now people don't have to pay artists to do work" is not really a benefit at all and the massive harm caused of "society can't function at all without a shared view of objective reality" is much, much worse.  That's before we even mention the other harms being done in the forum of pollution, water use, higher energy bills, and higher costs for many products due to datacenters gobbling up all available storage and RAM.

So again, it's not "just another tool" so much as it's an "existential crisis for humanity."

[Andrew - EOSHD]

56 minutes ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

It only took from July to August for my own country to go from demonstrating nuclear fission to dropping a fission bomb on a city full of civilians.

I thought there was some breaking news for a moment then!

[eatstoomuchjam]

4 hours ago, Andrew - EOSHD said:

I thought there was some breaking news for a moment then!

There was!  Huge headlines back on August 6, 1945!