▲ 98 ▼ Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 month ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show [M] to c/news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 93 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago (1 child) This is an extremely dangerous misconception. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] finwe26@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I'm interested in reading your thoughts about it. Here are mine, in the best english I can muster. I'm not saying AI is harmless. I'm saying social media has already demonstrated a more immediate and widespread ability to destabilize society. It has transformed how billions of people consume information, created echo chambers, rewarded outrage, accelerated misinformation, increase polarization, and eroded trust in shared facts. Again, AI may eventually become more dangerous, but social media has already created the enviroment in which those dangers can spread. If you think as AI as a weapon, then social media is the distribution system, and we as a society have already given that distribution system to billions of people. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] finwe26@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) I'm interested in reading your thoughts about it. Here are mine, in the best english I can muster. I'm not saying AI is harmless. I'm saying social media has already demonstrated a more immediate and widespread ability to destabilize society. It has transformed how billions of people consume information, created echo chambers, rewarded outrage, accelerated misinformation, increase polarization, and eroded trust in shared facts. Again, AI may eventually become more dangerous, but social media has already created the enviroment in which those dangers can spread. If you think as AI as a weapon, then social media is the distribution system, and we as a society have already given that distribution system to billions of people. permalink fedilink source parent