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DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoEven gen AI, despite how it has been used as a tool for the enrichment of the more privileged 0.1% as a tool of suppression of artists’ (and critics of technofascism’s) voices, is not really a harmful technology.
With enough copyright protections, and regulation of deep fakes, digital formats, and a bunch of other things, I could see gen AI being a valuable collaborator to creative output and workflows.
Hell, other than weapons, I find it hard to justify calling any technology inherently evil or nefarious. And even then, weapons have saved many innocent people’s lives against unjustified attacks, wild animals and other threats.
Still, if we don’t treat each technological invention with the right amount of cautiousness and care, we risk the deaths of, sometimes, even thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Tech is like a gun and a space ship. Neither have Will.
Also, apparently you haven’t been paying attention to that Will’s candid work. You’re missing a few zeros on it’s current work. Sure they’re denying what is so fucking obvious. I hole you like cheese because our Madness Will make a Heidi face of being forced to eating something like Limburger.
zd9@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Exactly. There are also hundreds of useful applications more than just consumer facing that you may be aware of. For example, I do research for climate models and we’re using diffusion models to make the data assimilation step more accurate, so there’s all kinds of things other than just making funny pictures or songs or whatever.