Reblogged
“It’s coming to the surface now. But it’s a marvel in itself that it has taken as long as it has. AI is really, really unpopular with the American people — even more unpopular than I’d realized, as I noted a week ago. And yet for most of the last couple years, in elite discourse, on TV and in the big news publications, you would feel very backwards and Luddite expressing more than a general caution that rogue AI intentionally blowing up the world would be a bad thing. […] As this Politico piece from a couple days ago points out, something like 80% of Americans think AI should be robustly regulated and fewer than 20% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on America over the next 20 years. These are shocking numbers, to put it mildly. AI is running only slightly ahead of child molesters in the public imagination. And yet the signature AI policy of the Trump White House is banning states from regulating AI — a remarkable thing regardless of the fact that the president has no power to do this. These are the kinds of disconnects you only see at fluid and unstable, inflection-point moments in a country’s politics.”
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I have yet to hear anything positive or hopeful about generative AI from a single person I respect. I’ve heard lots of marketing bullshit, lots of car salesman pressure to buy into it, but nothing from anyone with any credibility.
It’s trash. It’s polluting like none of us can comprehend. It’s wasting so much water. It’s making people even more stupid. It is directly implicated in numerous suicides, including children.
People are right to hate it. People are right to demand strict regulation.
And The People will have to remove from power every single politician and big tech predator who stands in the way.
Nobody is coming to save us from this. We will have to do it ourselves.
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com
