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Technological advancement is cool. Widening the power divide between megacorporations and the general population and allowing rich assholes to have greater power and control over the average person is not cool, and unfortunately, that's what technological advancement is doing.
People truly don't comprehend the profound horror of a dystopia that people behind AI/proponents of AI/capitalists and grifters clinging to the next big exploitation tool/etc. are already causing. AGI isn't a thing, and it's not even a consideration. Skynet isn't going to ruin everything. Greedy, toxic, soulless people are the problem, and AI is the tool they are wielding to to it.
AI training isn’t only for mega-corporations. We can already train our own open source models, so we should erode our own rights and let people put up barriers that will keep out all but the ultra-wealthy.
I recommend reading this article by Kit Walsh, a senior staff attorney at the EFF if you haven't already. The EFF is a digital rights group who most recently won a historic case: border guards now need a warrant to search your phone.
You should also read this open letter by artists that have been using generative AI for years, some for decades. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Don't get me wrong, I think that since AI is here we absolutely ought to keep it as free for the average person to engage with as possible because the corpos are gonna do it regardless of legality.