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Ok this is insanity. The thing keeping people from making destructive devices is the difficulty in synthesizing white fuming nitric acid and similar required p
by AnarchismIsCool 2y ago
Ok this is insanity. The thing keeping people from making destructive devices is the difficulty in synthesizing white fuming nitric acid and similar required precursors. You can Google wherever shit you want if you use someone else's wifi and you should be able to at least Google whatever you want without the feds showing up.
The danger of ai has nothing to do with what the average Joe might try to do, it has everything to do with what soulless corporations are doing to you right now and how it enables them to be even worse in the future.
Right now your roof is being scanned by aircraft with cameras and AI is being used to determine how old it is and if there are tree branches nearby. They're also looking at and classifying objects in your back yard to determine safety risks. It's not horribly accurate but because of the scale it doesn't matter to the companies, you just get fucked. Accidentally bag something you didn't scan at the self checkout? They have AI for that too, there are multiple reports of people being hunted down and charged with theft for simple mistakes.
Your chances of having your life ruined of degraded because of AI are massively higher than your chances of being hurt by a random individual using it to build destructive devices.
- robotnikman 2y agoCouldn't have worded it any better myself. AI is already being used for horrible things by companies and state actors and no one bats an eye over it.
- mhuffman 2y agoIndividuals are usually the targets of companies and the government, whereas the government is immune from any blowback for with it does and has, right now, very cozy relationships with large corporations.
- mhuffman 2y agoAll good points, but then ask yourself why this [0] is being put under Homeland Security and not just a business lobbying group. [0]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-homeland-security-names-ai-safety-security-advisory-board/ar-AA1nJISE https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-homeland-security-names...
- AnarchismIsCool 2y agoBecause this is how us politics work. We freak out about stuff and immediately assume terrorism instead of billionaire profiteering.
- mhuffman 2y agoWell that is what we are told to support the profiteering part, right?
- fragmede 2y ago> The danger of ai has nothing to do with what the average Joe might try to do Why not both? With the story of a high school principal being framed by a coworker who deep faked a racist anti-semitic rant that the principal didn't say, I'd say the danger of AI also has to do with what an average Joe that wants to cause you harm can do. That doesn't diminish the threat from corporations, but a jilted lover can now ruin your life in additional ways. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/26/baltimore-ai-voice-audio-framing-principal/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/26/baltimore...
- AnarchismIsCool 2y agoIn the case of the example, it didn't work, but every day people are being dropped from their homeowners/car/health insurance. Yes there are dangers there but they ultimately come down to evidentiary standards. We can't do the thing we always do where all risk is perceived based off of extremely rare incidents so we destroy everyone's privacy while the stuff actually harming people at scale is ignored.