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[–] Caves_of_steel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Funny - bis Argument is : ai is built in human collective knowledge thus wie should participate in the profits and ... Give it all to americans

Dont get me wrong i like the sentiment - but seems like it comes down to - ai was built by THe collective knowledge of all humans - the profits should go to all americans

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

I mean however unlikely this law is to pass it would be outright impossible if the idea was to take 50% of AI profits and then somehow mail checks to every person on earth, even outside of the country doing the profit distribution

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

check my math:

0.5 x 0 = 0

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ew, no, thanks. Feels like he got this “idea” from some slop machine.

Just tax them, regulate them, fine them into bankruptcy, and sue them for crimes against humanity.

Use taxes and regulations to incentivize cooperatives and disincentivize private companies.

Tax revenue and income progressively (starting on the negatives: if you're below the mean you get money), reaching 100% for anything above 100,000$/month for individuals and 100,000$/month/employee for companies.

Scale fines with personal wealth/ valuation, so that they have the same impact regardless of wealth.

Tax and regulate the stock exchange like the gambling joint that it is.

Hold CEOs, boards, and stockholders personally responsible for any crimes or torts committed by their companies.

Nationalise any companies that provide first needs or anything remotely resembling a utility, and turn them into cooperatives.

Tax 100% of any wealth over, say, ten times the mean.

I don't know, there's so many better things to do than spreading this cancer over all the population. All this would do is make it hit harder once the bubble pops.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Defense, oil, and media industries should be a higher percentage. They are historically responsible for most corrupt lobbying/disinformation/warmongering and alliance with zionazi rule over the US. The strategic unanimity of "must beat China or maintain zionazi bias over population control" for AI means that it is meant to be a corruption vector for skynet, funneling all of our wealth and liberty onto privatized profit from skynet.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just ban running them on a loss. Maybe even ban running anything at a loss in order to curb competition, etc.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Kurt Vonnegut's "Player piano" nailed it in 1952:

Automation makes factories more efficient, tax that efficiency and give it back to the displaced workers.

Of course, since then, we've been doing nothing but lowering corporate taxes...

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

how about shutting it down, why keep it around. almost as if you are funded by them.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

The public should own all of AI, and corporations should be forced to ask the public to lend compute. AI is a powerful tool, and if we give the elite ownership of it, they will someday cut society loose: By killing or enslaving us all, and using robots to autonomously fulfill the wealthy's wish to be truly free of responsibility.

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Tax the tokens

Every country

Every token

100% AI Tax

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI is just a financial grift to circlejerk money out of the stock market; and then reap a big, fat government bailout when the bubble inevitably pops.

If we share the profits, do we also share the risks? What happens to this plan when AI implodes?

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