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> What's different now though, is the hysteria over AI is leading regulators to pass potential market killing regulation This is entirely because the experts a
by swatcoder 2y ago
> What's different now though, is the hysteria over AI is leading regulators to pass potential market killing regulation
This is entirely because the experts and fundraisers in the field promoted the technology as existentially and societally dangerous before they even got it to do anything commercially viable. "This has so much potential that it could destroy us all!" was the sales pitch!
Of course regulators are going to take that seriously, as there's nobody of influence vested in trying to show them otherwise.
- galangalalgol 2y agoThe experts did that specifically so we would regulate barriers to entry into existence. It isn't a mew trick. Regulatory capture takes many guises, "think of the": Children, Consumers, ... Under booked hotels we could put you in.
- llm_trw 2y agoOpenAI was smart enough to build a moat for itself in Europe. The EU was dumb enough to dig it for them.
- monksy 2y agoWhat is the value that OpenAI is bringing to the US right now? Mostly its being used to generate text that fit a query.
- sensanaty 2y agoThat's not true, it's also very useful when trying to defraud and scam people en-masse!
- yimmothathird 2y ago[flagged]
- llm_trw 2y agoWhat value does a google search provide?
- harimau777 2y agoModern Google search? Very little
- verzali 2y agoThe ability to target adverts more effectively.
- fragmede 2y agogiven that text is used everywhere, don't you think you might be undervaluing how valuable it is to "generate text that fit a query"?
- alach11 2y agoWe’ve saved a few million dollars with it at my job.
- petre 2y agoIt quickly generates BS text that costs billions of man hours to generate by people doing BS jobs, which could be doing something more useful, such as childcare. I'm using it to quickly localize our application into different languages, such as Arabic. German took like a few hours to get from non existing to 100% functional. Arabic was sketchy with Arabic mixed with French text, now it's 100% Arabic.
- account42 2y ago> which could be doing something more useful, such as childcare. Ok but what is your plan for letting people who lost their jobs to AI to do more meaningful things? Because unless there are bigger societal changes all it means those people will not have to find jobs that are even more bullshit.
- petre 2y agoI think they're going to do the same jobs they are doing now, but using AI instead which should probably reduce the amount of BS they have to deal with everyday. For instance some of the low pay work companies would use freelancers for, like processing huge amounts of data, manually transcribing text from documents, or content moderation.
- fuzztester 2y agohow?
- generalizations 2y ago> This is entirely because the experts and fundraisers in the field promoted the technology as existentially and societally dangerous > regulators...take that seriously That's how.