AI: real concerns vs hype

[Anonymous]

No one is going to care about AI and jobs when they fully understand its impact on the environment and our water supply. We are cooked at this rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is going to care about AI and jobs when they fully understand its impact on the environment and our water supply. We are cooked at this rate.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As with everything, there are winners and losers.

I am amazed by some of AI's capacities. And most of us aren't even talking about where the real gains are being made, namely healthcare. I also see how AI is making a lot of things more efficient. At the same time I also see how AI can raise standards for output so much that we have to rush to keep up with the higher standards. It does feel like a mad, mad world in some ways. I wish things would slow down.

I am also a bit concerned about the mental health implications for some people with AI. The AI chat seems so real and personal that for some people it will become their life. And AI slop is ridiculous. We already have enough trouble with some people unable to differentiate between what is real and what is fiction, and it's only going to worsen.

My conclusion is that outside a few specific areas like healthcare, technology and intelligence, AI isn't a net benefit for humans. Smart people will use AI to help themselves become even smarter, the average person will see AI as clutter, an extension of more social media or low level software tools in their lives, but a lot of people will use AI to become dumber and the gap will worsen over time.

This is really interesting. It's analogous to the internet generally, where some people are using the internet as a work tool to be exponentially more productive than people in similar jobs were 30 years ago. But the dregs of society, mostly men, are just using the internet to look at cat memes and complain about women, while they are unemployed in their parents' basement. The poor and dumb really have regressed an amazing amount because of the internet. It will be interesting if AI furthers this.

[Anonymous]

Most of the white collar drones are basically toast. Frontier models are smarter, faster and cheaper than them. Maybe we will create social constructs to protect ourselves, but somehow I do not have confidence in that since we have not been able to even come up with a health care for all.

[Anonymous]

It's not X, it's Y.

[Anonymous]

Well, I learned a new danger of AI this week. We don’t know who did it, but someone created AI photos of a family member of mine kissing, on dates, etc with a coworker and sent them to coworker’s spouse. The spouse is elderly and doesn’t understand they are fake, so now they are harassing and threatening my family member. And yes, I’ve seen them and they are definitely AI generated.

But, AI photos and videos are getting better and better. What if someone becomes obsessed with you/your spouse and creates fake photos of an affair to try to break up the marriage? Or if someone does it for revenge?

[Anonymous]

I'm worried that the U.S. military bombed a girl's school because Claude told it to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As with everything, there are winners and losers.

I am amazed by some of AI's capacities. And most of us aren't even talking about where the real gains are being made, namely healthcare. I also see how AI is making a lot of things more efficient. At the same time I also see how AI can raise standards for output so much that we have to rush to keep up with the higher standards. It does feel like a mad, mad world in some ways. I wish things would slow down.

I am also a bit concerned about the mental health implications for some people with AI. The AI chat seems so real and personal that for some people it will become their life. And AI slop is ridiculous. We already have enough trouble with some people unable to differentiate between what is real and what is fiction, and it's only going to worsen.

My conclusion is that outside a few specific areas like healthcare, technology and intelligence, AI isn't a net benefit for humans. Smart people will use AI to help themselves become even smarter, the average person will see AI as clutter, an extension of more social media or low level software tools in their lives, but a lot of people will use AI to become dumber and the gap will worsen over time.

This is really interesting. It's analogous to the internet generally, where some people are using the internet as a work tool to be exponentially more productive than people in similar jobs were 30 years ago. But the dregs of society, mostly men, are just using the internet to look at cat memes and complain about women, while they are unemployed in their parents' basement. The poor and dumb really have regressed an amazing amount because of the internet. It will be interesting if AI furthers this.

Plenty of women waste time on the internet too, with all the social media posts. And the progressive left absolutely uses internet social media to make themselves even more radically stupid. The shared online communities intensifies delusions about your identities and beliefs and causes and enables it in a way life before the net never would have allowed. It'll be interesting to see if AI worsens it.

[Anonymous]

The excesses of woke culture is a problem but they pale in comparison to MAGA and podcast bro culture.