My understanding is most of you are anti AI? My only question is…why? It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness. No joke the AI in sci fi movies is worse than what we actually have in many ways!
Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”. If that’s what being Anti AI is…to that I say Amen.
But simply not liking a privacy conscious experience or utilization of AI at all? I’m not getting it?
Although you’re not wrong, you should consider that what’s normal for you today fucked somebody’s job yesterday.
Textile workers have been fucked by machines, same for anyone working with horses was fucked by cars, and mass production fucked more of less any job that existed before… or not? Those jobs still exist today, they are just less prevalent and often a well paid niche.
The internet we know today with SEO and ads-driven businesses had been around for 20-30 years max and it is now a dumpster on fire with all the user tracking that has been put in place. We won’t miss it should it disappear.
I’m not a fan of this comparison because textile machines replaced textile workers at the same time as demand for textiles increased a thousandfold. The industrial revolution achieved this increased demand by increasing people’s living standards - instead of having a handful of outfits people (in the privileged parts of the world at least) started keeping dozens or hundreds of them - but with art demand/consumption is already effectively “maxed out” because every person with an internet connection already has access to more art than it is possible for them to consume in their entire lifetime, so increasing the amount of art produced can only have a “zero sum” effect on art writ large because the amount of art will increase while demand will not.
Yes but it should disappear back into the direction of many smaller websites and more privacy, not in the direction of all of that texture being totally consumed by LLM generated search results and everyone further congregating on a smaller number of sites that collect every iota of data possible.
Quite frankly, it’s not. Now “video on demand” means that you can sit on your couch and start the movie when you want. Tomorrow it may mean that you will also decide the content. Another sequel of Star Wars? Sure! A new season of Game of Thrones? No problem!
Moreover, AI is being used to create products and also in scientific research. It’s already improving our standards.
My guess? AI will kill the cheap stuff, but internet will not change much overall and surely not rapidly.
I don’t think you understood what I meant by increasing demand/consumption. “Another sequel of Star Wars” or “A new season of Game of Thrones” aren’t increasing demand for art, they’re replacing previous forms of art with generated forms. And the usefulness of machine learning in fields like medical research is great - but it isn’t going to massively increase consumption.
I see your point. Assuming that in the future we will consume content as we do today, you are probably right.
My point is a bit different though: things will change. Famously in the 70s somebody didn’t see the point of having a computer at home because nobody would need the stuff that computers could do in that period. Then needs changed, new needs came, computers evolved, and now we have computers even in our pockets. With AI it will likely be the same.
I imagine there is probably somebody who died of a fentanyl overdose on an American street last week, who would have had a relatively prosperous life as a textile worker or horse trainer if they had been born 160 years ago.