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I don’t think it’s surprising - some people already consider the actions of AI execs and tech companies to be synonymous to violence. Like, comparing something
by nothinkjustai 6mo ago
I don’t think it’s surprising - some people already consider the actions of AI execs and tech companies to be synonymous to violence. Like, comparing something like this to destroying the livelihoods of millions of people, a lot of people would consider the latter far worse.
Temperature is certainly going up, but it definitely hasn’t reached historic levels yet lol.
- _bohm 6mo agoStructural violence is the term most commonly used for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
- closeparen 6mo agoI do not think that marketing products and services that do useful work is “violence.”
- malfist 6mo agoUseful work like selecting an all girls school in Iran for triple taps? Useful work like generating mountains of deepfake misinformation?
- hungryhobbit 6mo agoIllegally mass surveying Americans, and mass murdering people in other countries is "useful work"? Because Anthropic just lost their US government contract (AND got slapped with a completely false order that prevents them from working with any government agency) because they wouldn't do the above ... and then OpenAI slid right in and said "yeah, we can do that".
- hananova 6mo agoWhat you think does not matter. You need to actually convince the downtrodden, otherwise these attacks will keep happening, and they will get worse.
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- insane_dreamer 6mo agoThe Ministry of The Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) lays this scenario out clearly -- people will resort to violence to try to stop what they consider to be the destruction of their lives or society.