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> The net benefit for humanity may turn out to be positive or negative - it's too early to tell. It's just a tool, but it is unfortunately a tool that is curre
by ang_cire 2y ago
> The net benefit for humanity may turn out to be positive or negative - it's too early to tell.
It's just a tool, but it is unfortunately a tool that is currently dominated by large-sized corporations, to serve Capitalism. So it's definitely going to be a net-negative.
Contrast that to something like 3D printing, which has most visibly benefited small companies and individual users.
- andybak 2y agoLike many things (general purpose computing, the internet) we can carve out our own space once something is released into the public sphere so I don't think Capitalism has the iron grip on this that you're hypothesising. In recent memory I think it's mainly social media where the corporations have mostly succeeded in keeping a firm hold on things and where it remains hard for users to subvert their aims. And that's largely because of the failure of decentralized social media to grow to a mass audience. I think AI is different. "Good enough" models are already available under generous licenses, fine-tuning and even training is within the reach of groups of volunteers etc etc