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another "ai is inherently evil" take coming from the "ai is inherently evil" blog. i agree that specific implementations of a technology (claude, gemini, qwen)
by tancop 5mo ago
another "ai is inherently evil" take coming from the "ai is inherently evil" blog.
i agree that specific implementations of a technology (claude, gemini, qwen) are never neutral but any tech itself (llms as a concept) is neutral you can implement it in any way you want. you can make a llm trained on diverse data, tuned for anti fascist opinions, using solar power and recycled hardware to be carbon neutral. the reason nobody is really doing it is just good old wealth inequality. as long as only big corporations can afford to use and develop llms or any other tech it will be biased to benefit them, thats why its so important to democratize it.
and for the open source part, the fact that it started as a libertarian movment dont mean it cant also be socialist. its going against the capitalist norm of exclusive property rights (including ip) and profit at all costs. sharing the product of your labor with everyone for free is one of the biggest things you can do to help, its like the online equivalent of putting food in the community fridge.
open llms let you fine tune them to add the missing under represented perspectives. you can run them locally with zero climate impact. analyze them in depth to reveal biases the devs never noticed or dont want you to see. none of that possible with closed source. the right thing to do is not avoid using ai at all costs but do everything you can to make it good. your skills and hardware access are a privilege. use it.
- materialpoint 5mo agoAI harbours evil, because unskilled people tend to trust it blindly. People have already been evicted, arrested and harassed by police simply because they choose to trust technology that flags or "recognizes" them, with no proof that they can trust it. This happens automatically. Thus, AI should be treated as potentially malicious, especially when it is sold as neutral.
- undeveloper 5mo agodo computers harbor evil? the thing AI runs on? the thing that has kind of facilitated all the bad things you mentioned with normal boring algorithms? does electricity harbor evil?
- materialpoint 5mo agoThat's just asinine. You understood the point perfectly.
- oulipo2 5mo agoYou pretend that you don't understand the point. Just like Nazi collaborators "pretending they just follow orders" wouldn't see the "bad thing in just making trains go to their destination".
- oulipo2 5mo ago"Nuclear bombs are neutral"
- lxgr 5mo agoNuclear bombs yes, but what about nuclear physics?
- oulipo2 5mo agoIf you don't understand that in a capitalistic society like ours, the tech and the power dynamics of the society in which they interact are indissociable, you don't understand how our world works
- lxgr 5mo agoNo, I just don't think that "technology x sometime/often/exclusively gets used/co-opted/... for evil" and "technology x is evil" are equivalent, and I think that the distinction matters.