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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (14 children)

America: gun shops and manufacturers are shielded from lawsuits. Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Also America: someone might learn how to make a bomb from an AI instead of learning it in the many many other places. Better sue.

Inconsistent. I can't sue because my kids school have to have a constant police presence.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Still. I think putting the brakes on “AI” is the right move right now. With its energy usage, intellectual property theft, nonconsensual (and underage) porn generating…not to mention its use by the ownership class to take and commodify human expression away from humans and the capitalist motive to profit over any consideration for the ramifications for the working class…I think halting this until we can get some protections in place for those this tech seems determined to exploit is a good thing.

Not that any of those problems will be solved even if we did hit the brakes. But, theoretically, yeah. I’m about it. Because, true to capitalist form, we are worsening the problems we haven’t even started trying to solve.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

think putting the brakes on “AI” is the right move right now.

Strong disagree. I won't accept any solution that step 1 is willful ignorance. You might be willing to stick your head in the sand because the world keeps moving, I am not.

With its energy usage, intellectual property theft, nonconsensual (and underage) porn generating…not to mention its use by the ownership class to take and commodify human expression away from humans and the capitalist motive to profit over any consideration for the ramifications for the working class…I

I always know when someone doesn't have a good argument when they give me a dozen bad ones. 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 .... Still equals 0. No matter how many times you do it.

[–] Fedop@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This comment is decrying it's parent, but it doesn't say anything to refute the points made. Energy use, intellectual property theft, and non-consensual porn seem like pretty decent things to be worried about.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fine whatever deal with these "points"

  • Energy: renewables, nuclear, carbon tax, incentives for companies to generate their own power

  • Intellectual property theft: abolish copyright law. Whatever value it might (I said might) have served is gone now. It should sicken us all to the core that we are the one people in human history that cut ourselves off from our own culture. But yeah if you want to be like some angry dragon living on your horde of data go ahead and don't put it on the internet. It's a messed up way of going through life but if you really really don't want your furry porn copied this is how you can go about it.

  • Non-consenual porn: I agree its at best in very poor taste and at worst harassment. Go ahead and throw the book at people who do it.

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