XLE

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I find it kind of funny that this is where you draw the line. First off, I don't think calling AI a tool is particularly accurate because it's trivially easy to control/predict the output of a tool, but you can't control the output of an AI. You're just losing a little more control here with their decision.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. "Guardrails" are already ill-defined, so it's more than likely that a few companies (with lawyers) can say "we have them, China and small businesses don't."

OpenAI/Anthropic might as well say they're the only companies operating with benevolent invisible wizards, and nobody else is.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They wrote they’d like to see AI executives testify “about the causes of these incidents, what failures or potential negligence at the companies led to them, and the types of regulation required to make sure they never happen again.”

"Thank you for your question, Mr. Senator. The product I manufacture is going to create an apocalypse or a second industrial revolution any day now. Just ask my sworn enemy Eliezer Yudkowsky!

"But we care about humans, and we'd be happy to set up vague, non-deterministic guardrails that only companies with my level of annualized revenue can afford."

[–] XLE@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know if you saw this post yet, but at least somebody is maintaining a Facebook filter list. Hopefully that means you can keep using uBO in peace, provided the right lists are enabled.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

The corpos like it more that way. After a little lobbying, a popular politician tells the world that their product is actually Great and Mighty, the media repeats it uncritically, and the public believes it.

Doesn't matter if the product isn't Great and Mighty, the stock goes up.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

He also imagines a world with AGI while trying to sell the worst chatbot on the market.

That's the trick. He wants people to believe fiction and reality are the same, so they keep giving him money and attention.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

There is no reason to assume AI is either desirable or sustainable like Zuck does.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the vast majority of people here get this. If Facebook's anti-adblock measure is effective enough to be worthy of replicating, it'll just get replicated.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

The "tax" just transfers shares of the for-profit companies into a State organization.

So CEOs like Elon Musk will keep using them as CSAM generators, while the State is incentivized to keep them profitable... Even though we have no reason to assume they'll ever turn a profit.

AI should not be treated as "too ~~big~~ inevitable to fail" and yet here Bernie is.

The president nominates THE SENATE CONFIRMS(because you glossed over that part) this is literally the standard practice.

Re-read my previous comment. I mentioned the Republican-controlled Senate explicitly. Did you need it to be in bold too or what?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure what's up with the hostility and calling everybody here dumb, but you're not talking about the same thing as I am.

He wants AI stock wealth to be given back to the people.

It won't be.

The stock will be taken by the government, and run by people chosen by Donald Trump and the majority-Republican Senate.

The Independent Commission would consist of seven members nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate

Considering AI is unprofitable, and considering the rampancy of corruption in the Trump administration, this is an extremely naive position to hold at best, and an actively harmful one at worst.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Bernie Sanders sadly didn't get the message and wants the American government to own 50% of the stock of major AI companies instead, which means the government would have an even bigger reason to invest more in them.

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