The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems.

[iveyline@mastodon.nz]

@tante So what is the point of being a human being? Altman and his AI mates are weapons of mass destruction.

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@ftranschel @lritter @tante

So did Jacobins.

[yashpheh@mstdn.social]

@johnzajac He doesn't need to be able to genuinely improve the product. Just make a good enough sales pitch. Enshittification is the business model.
@tante

[maybemayday@infosec.exchange]

@tante This is why we must - at any opportunity - choose not to outsource our own thinking.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@tante Last week, I had someone on reddit claiming that programming will become an old man's hobby because of AI.

[drchaos@sauropods.win]

@Mikal @Quasit @tante Aren't we heading that way? They don't need to make it illegal, just completely defund education especially in poorer communities... they are already doing that.
Flaming torches and pitchforks (and the yanks keep on rattling about that their right to arm bears is to defend against a government that turns into dictatorship...)

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Iveyline @tante

Oh hey, #chatCEO talks about intelligence.

The take is absolutely correct. The purpose of AI is to enslave the population to concentrate economic and political power for instance.

My chief question with any piece of technology is who ends up with power.

This is the first question to answer before anything else

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Mikal @tante

Not long ago, I had this thought about how individuals with dark triad personality traits, which include psychopathy in addition to Machiavellianism and narcissism is that they read out of dystopic science fiction something completely different than somebody who has functioning empathy.

Because they don’t have the mirror cells reacting to what’s described they can’t read the dystopia

[cosmiccactus@mastodon.social]

@tante It's not just based on hope, there is a lot of research going into making people dumb and brain control in general. I'm sure there are already more technological solutions to this problem, like neurolink and similar technologies.

IMHO the main idea here is that allowing people to run around without controlling their brains is very dangerous, who knows what they might think of.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@tante @mossman

I don’t know what his argument is, but one thing I will ask about any technology is who ends up in control. With computers that people could buy for not so much money and software producing music became widely available. But we are not free of consolidated control of distribution. Musicians are still kind of fucked. See Spotify.

If computers were AI processing is not widely available we’re fucked. There is already talk of personal computers being made for lease only.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Npars01 @tante

irony in that they’ve installed a party and a president with who engaged in a war that will demonstrate yet again why global supply chains in this case the global supply chain dependent on oil, not only for energy, but as a feed stock necessary for their industrialized food, production and for the extraction of resources necessary not only for “green” energy but almost everything in the global supply chain infrastructure is fragile

The great simplification is a thing

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@johnzajac @tante

Altman’s superpower is as a mesmerizer.

He is an extremely proficient con man.

What the human race needs is a much more violent reaction to people like him in that they violently reject the con they just are allergic to it and treat people like him as the pariah he needs to be

[bubblegumyeti@mastodon.social]

@mossman @tante maybe true, but the tech-bros will make sure the hardware needed will be out of reach or needs subs.

[vonskinnback@mastodon.social]

@tante the one thing companies have taught us over the years is that no one person and no one thing is irreplaceable, when it comes to cost spending nothing is always a businesses first priority...

[njsg@mementomori.social]

@tante All they have to do now is to lobby against public health initiatives or e.g. lobby for banning face masks...

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@BubblegumYeti @tante my 16 year old desktop is still going strong (in fact, Windows games now run better under Linux). Hardware can last a long time these days if the user has control. Unlike the phone I bought three years ago for my work mail and Teams... where the &%^£ing corporate admin has just decided that the Android version is too old and therefore "insecure" and bricked the work account! (I am pissed off they expect me to buy a new phone because of their stupid policy!)

[bubblegumyeti@mastodon.social]

@mossman @tante Yes true... they can't control Linux

[haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com]

@tante
NOW we are talking!

[coba@gruene.social]

@xgebi @cwebber @tante @nixCraft it is not just code or programming it is all cognitive capabilities. Writing. Drawing. Inventing. Planning. Criticising. Condensing.

And the more I talk to AI users, they are using it because they are lonely. And they are looking for companions. Living people might not be available all the time. The ai is. I fear the damage in social structures.

[alanxoc3@tilde.zone]

I can't wait for the day when I can reasonably self-host intelligence, rather than depending on a large corporation.

Wait a second...