I don’t understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work, he is already rich he doesn’t need to do commercials and blatantingly shill for a product for money like this.
Also the ides that anyone should listen to Bill Gates about needing or not needing government regulation, nationalization or trustbusting is actually insane.
They quoted him wrong. He said “… will cause billionaires death…”. Why else is he and the other billionaires suddenly shit scared of LLM’s?
Is it just me or does this “AI Doomsday” talk seem like coordinated messaging?
Chatbots that are smart enough to destroy humanity would be really impressive, right? “Powerful enough to change the world” and “powerful enough to destroy the world” are similar claims and maybe they’re switching to the second one because nobody is buying the first anymore.
it’s not just you
occam’s razor says that in the face of faltering demand and sky-high expenditures, government cheese and regulation is an expected pivot
try to suggest that and the rats get very mad tho
They want to shift responsibilities to their products and their users.
@yesman @supersquirrel this has been one of the core critihype topics all along. It just gets more or less emphasis over time and I think they’re intentionally cycling through them.
This was all established in the “Effective Altruist” scene that’s at the root of this stuff well before they latched onto LLMs as the fake AI technology to use for the scam.I cant tell if you are being serious or not but in case you are, and truly dont remember this gem from almost 12 years ago.
@yesman @supersquirrel its an op. Just another promo.
@cstross @supersquirrel @yesman But who’s buying the latter? Those already willing and able to destroy are already stoking the AI money furnace. What do the rest of us get out of consenting to stoke it, too, against our own best interest?
@Yolfen @supersquirrel @yesman It’s aimed at the press and politicians. LLM model progress is visibly stalling so the next step is for OpenAI and Anthropic to go “Booga-booga-AI DOOM” and push for a regulatory environment that freezes out small upstart competitors/Chinese AI firms/self-hosted models. It’s all about creating and exploiting a rental monopoly.
@yesman @supersquirrel well, for one, didn’t ai almost cause an attack on some chinese ship the other day?
I think they are always a mix of exaggeration and truth in these things
I don’t understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work
because he’s actively doing works to change the world in specific (negative) ways. look into the history of gates-tied funding in nutrition programs, he’s got a bad-shit-for-humanity track record spanning well past a decade. has “just” had a better PR team than the clowns of vogue
Billionaires could cause a total population extinction, those deserve regulation first, before AI.
Remember when Bill Gates lent his piece of shit opinion in on not letting India produce covid vaccines without patent approval and with their own production lines?
That murdered a whole lot of people all by itself.
how about we extinct all billionaires instead
Oh gosh this is so powerful, I better buy it before the other guys do! - some gullible CEO of a company
This pedophile just won’t go away
They desperately need us to believe that it’s skynet, so we dont realize it’s just evil C3PO
The doomerism gets politicians talking about it instead of the problem right in front of them: these products are actively hacking into businesses across the world.
these products are actively hacking into businesses across the world.
No, they are not. They are used by people to do this. These systems aren’t able to act unprompted hence this whole , they’re breaking free" talk is nothing more but the companies trying to deflate the bubble they created before it pops with their money in it.
We’re making the same argument. The people building these tools must be held accountable.
you aren’t, you’re making a similar arguments to the doomers. The problem they have isn’t that their chatbots are “hacking people” or whatever, it’s that there isn’t a lot of room to either escalate or substantiate their claims left and not a lot of time to find a way to be profitable, somehow
the problem right in front of them:
Billionaires
