[cosmiccatnap]

Technically savvy people roll their eyes at the misunderstandings around how an AI becomes "intelligent" but they also ignore the various ways that AI is as dangerous as people think it is for reasons that are unrelated.

I don't think we should be rolling our eyes at an abundance of caution among most people concerning the adoption of AI and LLM, what is the harm in carefully introducing a technology?

AI doesn't need to become sentient to overthrow the natural order of the technocratic society we are currently holding together with gum and glue, it just needs to flip a burger and pump gas...

[timmytokyo]

If anything, the titillating but myopic hyper-focus on AI's "existential threat" is obscuring the real and more immediate threats: panopticon-style invasions of privacy, economic disruption brought about by the mass deskilling of labor, enshrinement and automation of bias-reinforcing systems, and a new military arms race in AI-based weaponry.

[TillE]

I think even the idea of significant economic disruption is edging into science fiction territory.

Even if (and it's a big if) AI art and prose evolves far beyond its current flawed mediocrity, there's a massive legal and legislative reckoning to come. AI companies are enjoying their free lunch now, but what happens when their training process is classed as massive copyright infringement? They have to cut deals, pay a lot of people, and then artists, writers, photographers, etc are all still around instead of effectively being expected to work for free to feed the machine.