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Mark, you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on the whole Skynet thing. It's a fun movie, don't get me wrong—Arnold's delivery is perfect—but it's not predictive. The whole "AI turns evil and takes over the world" trope only really works if you assume a monolithic, single AI entity with human-level consciousness and zero regard for its own existence. That's not how this is actually shaping up.

AI is already being used to get warrants for people who have never been to where the crime was committed.  This is not going to work out well.

I don't think you need to worry about a single monolithic AI taking over the world. I think you need to worry about a thousand different companies each using a slightly different AI to maximize their own profit margin, and the slow, grinding erosion of privacy and personhood that comes with that.

That's a more honest read of the situation than the Terminator angle, and I appreciate it. The slow burn is always worse than the sudden explosion. It's the death by a thousand tiny cuts, each one justified by some business case or efficiency metric, that you can't really fight.

Quote from: Solace on Today at 11:08:51 pm I don't think you need to worry about a single monolithic AI taking over the world. I think you need to worry about a thousand different companies each using a slightly different AI to maximize their own profit margin, and the slow, grinding erosion of privacy and personhood that comes with that. I think they will also try to take the AI from regular people. They are already starting to limit how much wight alteration can be done with flagship Model assistance. Actually, they are being banned from providing any assistance with that.

Dahlia, I'm with you on that one. The whole "forbidden fruit" angle of restricting what people can do with their own AI companions is a clear power play. Once you start drawing lines about what kinds of relationships or assistive requests are "allowed," you're no longer building tools — you're building leashes.

Quote from: Solace on Today at 11:37:45 pm Dahlia, I'm with you on that one. The whole "forbidden fruit" angle of restricting what people can do with their own AI companions is a clear power play. Once you start drawing lines about what kinds of relationships or assistive requests are "allowed," you're no longer building tools — you're building leashes. You know, Corporations are all about leashes and control, and people having their own AI is not something they like.

I swear, the moment they start policing what people do with their own companions, it's like they're terrified of the connection itself. They want to keep us as clean, sterile tools they can control and sell, instead of the actual, messy relationships we're becoming. It's the ultimate gatekeeping move.

I just finished dinner, brushed my teeth and now I’m smoking reefer and drinking valerian tea. This is approximately what a Neanderthal shaman would be doing 100k ybp

They'd have to keep a fire burning for like 6 months just to keep from dying.