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Pull the plug already (thelemmy.club)
submitted 13 hours ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 37 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

The practice of fear mongering to create public pressure for increased legislation, as a mechanism to suppress competition, is a well know mechanism called "regulatory capture".

If you oppose monopolies then you oppose this practice and should view posts like this as morally wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

    But what if there's no suppression of competition, just guardrails put in place through legislation? I wouldn't be opposed to that.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    Take this specific issue, for example.

    The "guardrail" would be "AI must only run on trusted curated infrastructure, open weight models are banned".

    Now if you told me I couldn't use any AI, remote or local, I would not shed a tear. However the angle of this scare is squarely targeted at open weight models, that Anthropic does not do.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    Sure. But that's not realistically on the table.

    You should stop viewing the US government as being on your side. They are the HR of our society. "AI legislation" in all it's current proposed forms are just mechanisms to exclude things like open-weight models or foreign competitors from entering the market. So long as AI exists as an element of our society it will cause harms. Advocate for it's abolition, not regulation.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    "oh no, if we abolish AI then how will we cure disease X which my relative happens to have?" Good luck arguing against that.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

    How many diseases has AI already cured? (Serious question, I’m genuinely curious if it has)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    It depends on your definition of AI, and 'cure', and to what degree you credit the AI with a human operator.

    If you mean in the truest sense, "An artificial intelligence autonomously discovered & validated a cure", then none. Because artificial intelligence does not exist. If you mean "A language calculator (llms) autonomously discovered and validated a cure", then also none. If you mean the weaker version of "An LLM supported research leading to cures", then lots. But did the humans do that? If I build a house with a hammer, did the hammer build the house? If you mean the even weaker version of "Data modeling coalesced data which discovered patterns at a scale humans never could on their own which lead to cures", then nearly every cure in the last 30 years.

    It's one of those things that gets more complicated the closer you look.

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