My view of AI (5)

[BRBFBI]

As I have said before, if AI had no benefits, no one would use it. It's not a question of if it has benefits - it's a question of the costs.

It's impossible to argue against the costs when the end of humanity is potentially among them. I think we have to get more nuanced than "AI bad."

I seem to remember an XKCD comic—which I can’t find for the life of me—which was simply an op-ed from when the printing press was invented, lamenting how the art of news by way of mouth would die out. The punchline is how absurd that fear of technology sounds today. A modern world without the printing press is unthinkable.

Then you had the telephone, TV, the internet, and now AI. Each one fundamentally changed aspects of society—for better or worse is up for debate. Each of them had detractors in their day, but now we can’t imagine life without them.

There are many, many concerns with AI, and the cons may outweigh the pros, but I think it’s interesting to suss out exactly what those pros and cons are.

[LazyPooky]

If you put this on, every photo of you will be marked as fake made by AI.




chuft the video in your intro post is gone. You might want to update it.

https://forums.lazytown.eu/forum/the...-ai#post187906

[chuft]

That's pretty funny.

I don't recall what video it was, presumably Easy Way, so I threw another Easy Way video on there instead.

[chuft]

There are growing signs that artificial intelligence poses a real threat to a substantial number of the jobs that normally serve as the first step for each new generation of young workers. Uncertainty around tariffs and global trade is likely to only accelerate that pressure, just as millions of 2025 graduates enter the work force.

We saw what happened in the 1980s when our manufacturing sector steeply declined. Now it is our office workers who are staring down the same kind of technological and economic disruption.

Breaking first is the bottom rung of the career ladder.

I’m a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking.

[LazyPooky]

I objected to the use of my personal data for Facebook's AI use. It will undoubtedly do nothing because they have violated all privacy sensitive agreements so far.

[chuft]

"Public posts and comments" - does that mean they get to use anything you post that is limited to friends-only?

I don't like them putting the word "public" in "your public information". Obviously that means they have some sort of "private information" they are not excluding.

[LazyPooky]

"Public posts and comments" - does that mean they get to use anything you post that is limited to friends-only?

I don't like them putting the word "public" in "your public information". Obviously that means they have some sort of "private information" they are not excluding.

That's a good one. Why the use of the word 'public' when it not allowed to use all personal data, which is public and private data.

Though they stated that they won't use anyone's private information for AI training, and if you don't want them to use the public information too there was this objection form. probably that's why the word 'public'.