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I’d be curious to hear that podcast if you could link it. If that was genuinely his opinion, he’s missed the forest for the trees. Brand safety is the dominant
by janalsncm 3y ago
I’d be curious to hear that podcast if you could link it. If that was genuinely his opinion, he’s missed the forest for the trees. Brand safety is the dominant factor, not “wokeness”. And certainly not by the choice of any individual programmer.
The purpose of these tools is quite plainly to replace human labor and consolidate power. So it doesn’t matter to me how “safe” the AI is if it is displacing workers and dumping them on our social safety nets. How “safe” is our world going to be if we have 25 trillionaires and the rest of us struggle to buy food? (Oh and don’t even think about growing your own, the seeds will be proprietary and land will be unaffordable.)
As long as the Left is worrying about whether the chatbots are racist, people won’t pay attention to the net effect of these tools. And if Sam Harris considers himself part of the Left he is unfortunately playing directly into their hands.
- lp0_on_fire 3y ago> As long as the Left is worrying about whether the chatbots are racist, people won’t pay attention to the net effect of these tools. It's by design. A country obsessed with racial politics has little time for the politics of anything else.
- rahidz 3y agoExactly. What a coincidence that the media's obsession with race and gender inequalities began right after Occupy Wall Street.
- CamperBob2 3y agoAs I recall, it began right after the George Floyd murder. It was clearly time for things to change, and the media latched onto that.
- xdennis 3y agoI think it was amplified in 2020. I hear many cite 2015 as the year things got woke. Terms like "preferred pronoun" started entering the mainstream around 2015, one year after GamerGate (not that that was the cause).
- felipeerias 3y agoPicking a starting point is always going to be somewhat arbitrary, but the moment it became mainstream was probably when Hillary Clinton won the nomination in 2016 by explicitly moving away from economic issues: “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow, would that end racism?” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-line-that-may-have-won-hillary-clinton-the-nomination-40504/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-line...
- klyrs 3y agoWhen were you born? Gender and race were pretty hot topics in the 1960s, you might have missed that.