Post #3110827

You're basically making a "if only people would just..." argument, but people are not going to "just". There's no world out there in which "AI" (again, using a pretty strict definition) exists, but there is no search results polluted to the brim with slopsites, idiots using AI as though it was a reliable source of information, automated propaganda, moguls trying to gaslight the world into thinking workers and artists have no leverage, deepfake porn, chatbots encouraging suicidal thoughts etc. etc. So you need to weigh the costs and the benefits. And the cost-benefit analysis of AI looks considerably different from the hammer's. Well, I say all that, but it's not as though I believe the world can't be made a better place. If we can set up society so that these bad behaviours aren't incentivised to begin with, it would mitigate some of the worst problems associated with AI (though I would argue that such a society wouldn't waste its resources on such a worthless application of the technology in the first place). But when is that going to happen, tomorrow? Worse yet, AI empowers the people who don't want society to change in that way far more than it does the people who do. So until we finish fixing society with our hands tied to our backs, we'll just have to suffer through all of AI's problems, and for what? So you can feel smug about misunderstanding a sentence in a scientific paper, because you were in no position to determine whether the rephrased sentence an AI ejaculated accurately conveyed the information in the original sentence, because if you were, you wouldn't have needed the sentence to be rephrased in the first place?