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After the real and ongoing harms visited on society by meta, Google, Amazon, et al and their data manipulation businesses you'd think we'd be able to insert ourselves into this conversation. Instead the corrupt American Gov't says no queries for 10 years and Canada appoints an unskilled sycophant.

AI 'superintelligence' is a big nothingburger. The real threat is in replacing the beginner entry-level jobs that are the onramp to talented mid-level jobs. AI is like the first-year intern that never learns past being a first-year intern.

Yes. The biggest threat to humanity remains the same as ever: humanity. These tools are just another way in which that threat manifests itself.

Misdirection 101; on PEDs thanks to the internet echo chamber.

Just for the sake of clarity (althought your point is still relevant): this is not *the* Irish election, as the Irish presidency is a figurehead position with minimal legal powers.

One of the fundamental theories behind GenAI is "SEO hasn't made the web useless enough, so we need to find ways to produce cheaper content-free content to show more ads!"

When Trump claimed the Reagan quotes were AI he showed that bad actors don't even need to generate fake content; it's enough to convince people that AI means the truth is unknowable.

exactly this. the only people more delusional than the agi optimists are the agi doomers. it's manufactured opposition. never forget that the ai arms race was kicked off by that hinton guy's fear-mongering. it's all just part of the hype

The AI narrative was carefully crafted. While Sam Altman talked about the wonderful things generative AI would enable, he knew critics would emerge. So the industry got there first, claiming AGI or superintelligence were the threat — not the present-day problems. disconnect.blog/generative-a...

we should consider banning such tools, in the same fashion of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. it has to be a global ban; no country is safe from the damages it causes.