Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All!
Kedly@lemm.ee 7 months agoYou’re raging against the symptom instead of the cause is what we’re getting at
Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All!
Kedly@lemm.ee 7 months agoYou’re raging against the symptom instead of the cause is what we’re getting at
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I don’t disagree with your take, but I also think it’s extremely naive to think that that bigger issue is as easy to tackle as the “symptoms” as you call them. You’re basically saying “don’t get mad that bad things are happening to you, all we need to do is completely rebuild a societal power structure against the will of those in power”. I admire your goals, but dismissing smaller scale issues because you’d like to focus solely on the biggest issue is at best naive, and at worst risks ignoring real people’s suffering for the sake of perfection.
Kedly@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m more coming at it as “ALL of our jobs are getting the axe soon, even if you were successful at banning AI, which would also ban the uses that are helping people, its equivalent to nailing a board over a crack in in a mega dam.”
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I totally agree with you on this. I actually don’t hate AI in all forms, but right now it’s being used for a lot of crap and not very much good as far as I can see. I hope people will find ways to use it to help not hurt.
Kedly@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I mean, its not a massive benefit to society, but AI gens have given me access to far more creative freedom than any tool previous, and I have ESL co-workers who said that Chat GPT helped them practice their conversation skills in English. Yeah corporate use of AI is disgusting, but corporate use of most tech is