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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not worried about AI turning into Skynet. That's like item # 1,576,549 on my list of reasons I hate AI.

It's literally everything else about AI:

  • Creating scarcity in PC parts and components to feed the AI bros' insatiable hunger for growth.
  • Rent-seekers like Bezos trying to spin the above into yet more "you'll own nothing and be happy"
  • Destroying farmland or otherwise affordable property for sprawling datacenters that create like maybe 12 jobs that can't be done remotely.
  • We never or barely addressed the massive disinformation problem and here's AI turning it up to 11 by making it trivial to shit out whatever narrative you want at massive scale.
  • Stealing from content creators to feed itself and then denying those same creators web traffic
  • Just being a bullshit machine that people blindly believe
  • Shoving it into everything when no one asks for it and many don't want it
  • Causing electricity rates to go up and subjecting people to either rolling blackouts or dirty generator exhaust because of demand
  • The massive use of water for cooling
  • Not actually able to do jobs but C-levels laying off people and creating unemployment nonetheless
  • C-levels forcing people to use "AI" for the express purpose of training it to do their jobs so they can be laid off
  • The goddamned pile of lies upon lies gaslighting us into believing this is to make our lives better.
  • Ignoring the loss of jobs, all the supposed savings from "AI" goes to the top; shit isn't getting any less expensive. It's even getting more expensive to take a literal shit; the water and poo plants run on electricity, and those risings costs get passed down.
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Israel has already been using AI to generate kill lists for their bombs and sniper drones.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

The problem isn't that skynet turns malicious. The problem is that AI is dumb and evil people have already given it the helm.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

first and formoest, it seems to be intended goal, massive layoffs using AI as an convenient excuse without actually firing them for other reasons.