At the current rate, few normal people will even be able to afford a computer or a smart phone in a few years, let alone run a private AI. These algos aren’t being made for normal people, they’re being made to benefit the privileged few. You can try all you want to be as altruistic with your design as you want, all that’s going to come of it is a cage for the vast majority of people. Whether Musk builds it, or Amodei builds it, or China builds it, it’s going to leave the vast majority of people shut out and struggling to survive. There is no kinder, gentler atom bomb. There is no world where these tools aren’t a global catastrophe that will ultimately cost billions of people their lives.
howrar@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
So the problem is everything moving to the cloud and that cloud being mostly controlled by a small number of big players, right? I still don’t know what the solution to that should be. In my mind, we can either assume that they’ll successfully take over and we give up (so why not make our lives easier while we’re here?), or we fight back while we still have access to the technology.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Make AI unusable. Keep Data Centers rare, keep tokens expensive, make sure no one is willing to spend on AI, and let the megacorps collapse under the weight of debt they can’t pay off. When they can’t fight back, start passing laws that outlaw private AI development and nationalize the major models. Start fighting for anti-trust laws with teeth, reduce corporate copyright entitlements while enforcing human IP rights, and void the whole concept of software patents.
Or die. Dying is always an option. I think we’d all rather avoid that one though.
howrar@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
I think we should clarify what we mean by AI first. I’m under the impression that you’re talking about generative models. I don’t think it makes sense to ban any form of automation. But if you do mean all automations, then I’d like to hear the reasoning for that.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
If you want to drop the marketing buzzwords and be specific, yes, LLMs, image generation/graphic design and other generative models, but also machine assisted data analytics need to be heavily regulated and taxed into a box. Military and law enforcement applications need to be strictly state owned, automated surveillance needs to be put on a bonfire entirely. There’s a lot of different classes and categories of “AI” that need to be completely re-thought, but you are correct, I am not entirely against all categories of automation.