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Chlorofluorocarbons, microplastics, UX dark patterns, mass surveillance, planned obsolescence, fossil fuels, TikTok, ultra-processed food, antibiotic overuse in
by Nition 11mo ago
Chlorofluorocarbons, microplastics, UX dark patterns, mass surveillance, planned obsolescence, fossil fuels, TikTok, ultra-processed food, antibiotic overuse in livestock, nuclear weapons.
It's a defensible claim I think. Things that people want are not always good for humanity as a whole, therefore things can be useful and also not good for humanity as a whole.
- wiseowise 11mo agoYou’re delusional if you think LLMs/AI are in the ballpark of these. I’ve listed things in my comment for a reason.
- soiltype 11mo agoYou're the one who made the comparison...?
- Nition 11mo agoThere was some confusion. I originally read Wiseowise's comment as a failure to think of anything that could be "useful but bad for humanity". But given the followup response above I assume they're actually saying that LLMs are similar to tools like the Internet or Wikipedia and therefore should simply not be in the bad for humanity category. Whether that's true or not, it is a different claim which doesn't fit the way I responded. It does fit the way Libidinalecon responded.