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Exactly! AI doomerism has been AI hype! Excellence from The Ink 🙌

"The real A.I. threat? Not some future Matrix turning us all into rechargeable batteries, but today’s A.I. industry demanding all of our data, labor, and energy right now."

https://the.ink/p/ai-human...
10:19 AM - Mar 26, 2024
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"The vast tech companies behind generative A.I. have been busy exploiting workers, building monopolies, finding ways to write off their massive environmental impacts, and disempowering consumers while sucking up every scrap of data they produce."
10:19 AM - Mar 26, 2024
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"But generative AI’s hunger for data far outstrips that of earlier digital tools, so tech firms are doing this on a vaster scale than ever seen. And that’s largely in pursuit of a goal — AGI, or “artificial general intelligence” — that is, so far as anyone can tell, more ideological than useful."
10:19 AM - Mar 26, 2024
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"[The tech industry] talks about it like, 'It comes from the cloud, and it works like magic'. And they don’t really talk about the fact that the magic is actually just people, teaching these machines, very meticulously and under great stress and sometimes trauma, to do the right things."
10:19 AM - Mar 26, 2024 (Edited)
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"And the A.I. industry is built on surveillance capitalism, as internet platforms in general have been built on this ad-targeting business that’s in turn been built on the extraction of our data."
10:19 AM - Mar 26, 2024
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"The central theme for me that ties all these things together is that we are creating monopolies like we've never seen before in terms of how powerful these companies are."

Exactly!

https://www.theguardian.co...
10:19 AM - Mar 26, 2024
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