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> This is the opposite direction AI should be going. There is no moral obligation, in any domain, to refuse to make a product that adults, with full informed c
by quotemstr 3mo ago
> This is the opposite direction AI should be going.
There is no moral obligation, in any domain, to refuse to make a product that adults, with full informed consent, find useful and purchase. Who are you to say you know better than the market?
- rel_ic 3mo agoI disagree. I think you absolutely have a moral obligation to consider the impacts of your product. > Who are you to say you know better than the market? You really don't think the scientists & engineers making these tools know some things better than the market?
- perching_aix 3mo agoMarket conditions are not a moral standard either, nor do they represent any cohesive one in particular. Not sure why you're contrasting their opinion with this, it's literally no better.
- gf000 3mo agoMarkets only work in well-regulated environments, this has been known since forever (Adam Smith). There is no meaningful competition in a marathon if I can drive you over with a car at the first 100m. And thanks fkin God that we have regulations and meaningful laws and some asshole for-profit company can't just put drugs into food.. the "informed buyer" is bullshit. Humans are faulty, and there is a billion dollar industry meant to take advantage of said faults: it's called marketing.
- FridgeSeal 3mo agoThis is a cute argument to make, which patently doesn’t work in the face of decades of evidence on the pernicious effects of social media _alone_, let alone the “turbo infantilising sycophancy machine”. Pretending that everything’s totally fine and ok because “it’s adults” really just disregards reality.
- quotemstr 3mo agoI don't accept that social media is self-evidently bad. Not everyone lives inside the bubble in which its wrongness is obvious.