The leaders of AI are still Meta and open AI, both of which have talked about closing their code.

I'm not talking about CORPO open source but the actual open source software. Fuck corporations indeed, noone should trust them.

And look at the mastodon vs. Threads scenario. Mastodon was more established, federated, and free. But FB decides it wants to eat Twitter’s lunch, and threads becomes the fastest growing app in history.

This is simple because facebook had an established userbase and a lot of people knew about it. Now that they are in the fediverse a lot more people will learn about other fediverse apps and will check them out.

As soon as the power is realized, the market is cornered and money talks. How can you imagine anything different will happen this time?

Corporations will absolutely try everything they can to monetise stuff. Thats why need to watch them, talk about their actions and advocate to regulate them in a way that makes sense. The future is going to be very chaotic and I don't know how we will solve those problems when most of the people are not in the ai space and are uneducated on this topic. Because of lack of knowledge about that stuff people will be advocating for and talking about the wrong stuff which will bury the actually good talks, concers, benefits etc.

You read this article, it was saying very clearly this tech was attempted to be used for evil. AND ITS STILL BRAND NEW. They were trying to screw all future actors out of their faces and voices. And these are still very early days.

Fuckers shouldn't be able to own their identities. Especially the virual ones. Even more so if the stuff is ai generated and not hand made in the computer because ai generated stuff shouldn't be copyrighted no matter what. And if they do? Then I'm with you, we will be fucked by corporations again.

I just don’t have any faith in favorable laws being written to protect us, I don’t have faith in the companies with their hands on the trigger, I don’t have faith in our current world ever transitioning to a post-work world.

As we very well know the corporations care about the profit and the profit only. They will ditch naturally grown meaty cheap machines to artificially created ones as soon they are good enough or better than humans at doing tasks while being cheaper and having no rights. Once too many people lose their jobs and there won't be nearly enough available then people will start protesting. I can see governments reacting by creating more bullshit jobs in the short term but in the medium-term they will have to introduce universal basic income because there will be no other way to keep people alive and not angry. They UBI will be only a temporary solution and I have no idea how the next steps of the process would look like but this scenerio is probably what will happen in some countries. The transition to the ai/robot workforce needs to be fast to avoid many people suffering because of lack of the jobs over a longer period of time because things were moving too slow to make people react to the change. If something bad happens to many people in a short period of time people are very probably to organise and protest. But that's not that much probable if things move slowly and gradually because the moment when people will react/organise will be when things are worse and affect more people than if it affected less people but in a very short amount of time. At the same time things need to move slowly to allow for regulations to catch up and for general public to be able to follow the topic and advancements in the ai/robotics space. Hopefully we hit this spot where we have a great balance of both but I doubt that such a thing exists when governments are very behind with regulations and they react very slowly to a new stuff (or any stuff in general).

I dunno where you are located, but in my country, thinking we can get the government to seriously look out for us in the face of massive paradigm shift is…foolish.

Oh boy, now I understand all your concerns. Everything I just said will very probably not apply to you then. EU is much better when it comes to reacting to such stuff. EU still has it's problems but still does "good enough".

Capitalist mindset just won’t let go so easily.

It won't but it's something that we need to go through unless we want for the things stay as they are. If we don't move our society forward then we are pretty much guaranteed to end up in a dystopia where corporations have all the power and people are miserable.

I'm open to further discussion and being pointed out my mistakes. My mind is not good at putting out long complex arguments so there's a very high chance that I missed some obvious stuff, started talking about something different mid argument or something else.