This is what people mean when they say AI is the end of the world. Its the end of the conscious world, the end of the knowledgeable world, the end of any hope that anybody but a few white men would ever hold any power in the world.
It would be if it worked well enough to actually be widely adopted… as it is, it will still be the end of the world as it will destroy the world’s economy when the bubble pops (or the actual physical world if the bubble takes too long to pop)
The powers that be have figured out how to prevent that. I wouldn’t count on it this time. They want it everywhere, surveiling.
That was a sad read. Every single thing has come true and Google could have been on the forefront of stopping it and creating an AI that was good. Nope. They just lite fire to the canaries. In reality Google is and all the other AIs are just a symptom of the real problem. Corprate greed enshitifying every aspect of our lives.
Priviblur link (alternate frontend like xcancel) because Tumblr is often bad at being a website.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Because that suggests solutions, and the loudest voices quoting these problems do not want them solved. They want the last six years to unhappen.
