Paul Prudence on Warpcast

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Aside from a very few (mostly conceptual works of art) I am unapologetically pessimistic about the role of AI in art and in society in general. There I said it. I will not bore you with my list of negatives right here but at the very least consumer level AI *is* just the entertainment division of the military industrial complex (to paraphrase F. Zappa) Critical tracts dissecting intelligent artificiality and the 'tech arms race ' excite me and this one by Karen Hao looks promising. Arriving in May 'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire. Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)

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.....The empires of AI may not be engaged in the same overt violence and brutality. But they, too, seize & extract resources, from the personal data of billions of people online to the land, energy, and water required to house and run massive data centers They, too, exploit the labor of people globally, from the artists and writers whose work they turned into training data without consent or compensation to the data workers globally who clean and prepare that data for spinning into AI models They, too, seek to justify these ever-mounting social, political, and environmental costs with ever-more outlandish promises about the boundless progress that AI will bring to humanity.... quoted from > https://x.com/_KarenHao/status/1904851987042361366

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It’s a tough issue. It’s been incredibly helpful in building things, creating structure, accelerating the ability to find rich information, deep research, refine ideas, and getting immediate personalized courses to learn almost anything. It’s extremely excited and gives superhuman abilities to thinkers and creatives. What do you do when others embrace this stuff and you stand on a hill against it? I suppose a slower lifestyle can be appealing, but it would be lonely. Of course, lots of repercussions to be aware of, and it’s good to have people like you keeping a critical eye. We should all maintain this position to a degree.

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This is well put what I’m very concerned about and the Ghibli excess is a good example https://warpcast.com/antimeme/0x1b44d85e

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While I feel your concerns, I think this statement is an oversimplification of "AI" - too broad of a term. Sharing the pessimism regarding the "big tobacco"-like conglomerates but I miss the world of small scale, open source models, local inference, transformers, reinforcement learning and similar approaches from the argument which I find rather inspiring achievements

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1000% agreed. If we learned anything from post-dotcom it is that tech overlords are still overlords. 😬

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Completely with you, Paul. AI is giant power, and no giant power has anytime been used to benefit humanity or society as a whole, but to benefit a few that are in control. One ring to rule them all.

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Ai is of course a mixed bag. Bringing advantages and disadvantages. New technologies are always sold to us based on the best case scenario and we cant often see the worst case scenario until it's actually playing out. While we are aware of the very real risks of automation and Ai replacing human labour (it's happening in the creative industries already) and the cliche sci-fi risks (robots taking over etc), we will likely be blindsided by multiple unforeseen problems down the line. The wider point that interests me is why do we actually constantly need all these new technologies? In reality, do they actually give us more free time, make our lives easier? Can they help bring about peace, reduce inequality etc? Why are we obsessed with "progress"? Is it just a reflection of the dissatisfaction we feel, the restless spirit, the constant craving for something more?

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149 $degen, ChatGPT was against it, but luckily I haven't completely lost my own judgment, yet.

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🎯 111 $degen

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