• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    No. I’m just not fear mongering things I do not understand.

    Technology is technology. Most famously nuclear technology can be used both for bombs or giving people the basic need that electricity is.

    Rockets can be used as weapons or to deliver spacecraft and do science in space.

    Biotechnology can be used both to create and to cure diseases.

    A technology is just an applied form of human knowledge. Wanting to ban human progress in any way is the true evilness from my point of view.

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      No one wants to ban technology outright. What we’re saying is that the big LLMs are actively harmful to us, humanity. This is not fear mongering. This is just what’s happening. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are stealing from humanity at large and setting the planet on fire to do it. For years they told us stealing intellectual property on an individual level was a harmful form of theft. Now they’re doing the same kind of theft bit its different now because it benefits them instead of us.

      What we are arguing is that this is bad. Its especially extra bad because with the death of big search a piece of critical infrastructure to the internet as we know it is now just simply broken. The open source wonks you celebrate are working on fixing this. But just because someone criticizes big tech does not mean they criticize all tech. The truth is the FAANG companies plus OpenAI and Microsoft are killing our planet for it to only benefit their biggest shareholders

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        13 days ago

        I did not believe in Intelectual Property before. I’m not going to start believing now.

        The same I think that corporations having a hold on media is bad for humandkind I think that small artists should not have a "not usable by AI"hold on what they post. Sharing knowledge is good for humanity. Limitate who can have access or how they can use that knowledge or culture is bad.

        The dead of internet have nothing to do with AI and all to do with leaving internet in hands of a couple big corporations.

        As for emissions… are insignificant relative to other sources of CO2 emissions. Do you happen to eat meat, travel abroad for tourism, watch sports, take you car to work, buy products made overseas? Those are much bigger sources of CO2.

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          You dont think polluting the world is going to have a net negative effect for humanity?

          What exactly is there to gain with AI anyways? What’s the great benefit to us as a species? So far its just been used to trivialize multiple artistic disciplines, basic service industries, and programming.

          Things have a cost, many people are doing the cost-benefit analysis and seeing there is none for them. Seems most of the incentive to develop this software is if you would like to stop paying people who do the jobs listed above.

          What do we get out of burning the planet to the ground? And even if you find an AI thats barely burning it, what’s the point in the first place?