Post #3110829

Most people _are_ thoughtful and well-intentioned. But one, the minority that isn't are enough to cause a lot of problems, and two, not all problems associated with AI are caused by bad intentions. You say that we should just blame the people for how they use AI, but aside from that there's not always a person to blame or the people causing the problems are often effectively invisible, people _are_ already being blamed, there's just nothing to make them care. So how do you propose we hold them accountable? The law? I mean, there's not a whole lot of political will for that right now, but even if there were, a lot would be difficult to encode into law and even more difficult to meaningfully enforce. Also, having to hold people accountable is also a cost that needs to be weighed against the basically non-existent benefits. >AI is a god damn programming package No, it's not. Other than a few specific products, it's not marketed like that, it doesn't have an interface that suggests that it's that and its functionality (or veneer thereof) isn't limited to that. What a strange thing to say. >Why do I have to lose a programming package because everyone - for no real reason - started blaming it for the reason they’re assholes to each other as if they hadn’t been jerks to each other before. It’s stupid. And here we get to the crux of the matter: _you_ are getting some use out of AI that at least in your subjective experience, for now, is positive, and that's all the justification for its existence you need. All the problems in the wider world associated with it, you just magic away with the phrase "personal responsibility" so you can just stop thinking about it. But that's not good enough.