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[–] 33 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

What scares me about AI (in this case more LLMs) is not necessarily how they're weaponized today but how they centralize power structures.

People are gradually becoming accustomed to their corporate flavor of LLM as their single source of truth. That is tremendously centralizing force for control.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Counterpoint, small decentralized LLMs that can run on local machines are empowering people to do more things and away from big tech. My non-tech friend switched to cachyOS thanks to ollama.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'd agree that it's all a tool and it's in how you use it, look at Reddit vs Piefed but just like this example it really feels like we're losing the numbers game. I'd attribute that to friction of use.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Great point. I think their original intent was total value capture of the emerging tech, but this ended up being a fantastic side benefit that they have no problem leveraging in a post-truth world.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Read the article, a lot of the misidentified lawmakers were black

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    It didn't "misidentify" anyone, it did what it was designed to do and now they know which parameters they need to "adjust" and will now identify those that would oppose them.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    It's a feature, not a bug!

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