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AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
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#22I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
AI is great at producing low value content. That low value content replaces the high value but high cost one.
That is horrifying and destroys jobs, removes expertise from the world, and makes our lives worse.
I do not see how AI could be a net positive either.
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#23I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
> It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
agree, given that we have a natural tendency to believe what we read - or only comprehend what we believe [1].
[1] https://bear.warrington.ufl.edu/brenner/mar7588/Papers/gilbe...
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#24I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
>what is the societal benefits of AI
it will hopefully eviscerate the petite bourgeoisie and the bohemians.
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#25hypothesis: connecting an ai autoblogging script to Google Analytics / Google Search Console: 00 you seed some articles 10 wait for traffic 20 bot fetches GA / GSC 30 bot analysis what works what does not 40 instructed to create more of what works 50 more ai slop that works in search / social 60 Go To 10 aka a "positive" / unchallenged feedback loop content cost dismissible - cents per article
Why do you even need GA? (not sure if it's bot friendly btw) One could just run a local traffic analysis and feed that back into the bot
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#26I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
I find it to be a useful tool for summarizing things, creating examples, and as a tutor for explaining a topic using analogies. Plus it can generate and iterate on code snippets.
Like, I personally find python pandas documentation unusable because they don't come with examples next to the function definition. (historically at least, maybe they have changed)
So I was left flailing, trying to cobble something together that was even capable of running without error, much less emitting the output I wanted.
Now that an LLM has badly-memorized 80% of the documentation and can generate 3 different attempts in 5 seconds, I'm free to focus on the actual problem I am working on rather than guessing at syntax for something I use less than once a week.
So I see at least the ability to have a on-demand tutor or sounding board, at any time of day, for pennies, to be a boon for anyone who wants to learn a bit or try reaching for something just outside of their current understanding.
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#27I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
AI is like when some fella named Nobel synthesized dynamite. He sure did have good intentions as it relates to safety for workers doing dangerous jobs.
There is your “pro” argument.
The “con” argument would be all the other ways dynamite has been twisted and used since.
This AI stuff is neither good or bad, it is a tool. The people using it are either good or bad.
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#28I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
AI is like when some fella named Nobel synthesized dynamite. He sure did have good intentions as it relates to safety for workers doing dangerous jobs. There is your “pro” argument. The “con” argument would be all the other ways dynamite has been twisted and used since. This AI stuff is neither good or bad, it is a tool. The people using it are either good or bad.
“drunk driving kills a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so it’s impossible to say whether it’s bad or not”
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#29It's becoming self aware, it's looking at itself and it's not liking what it's seeing. What if instead of the hollywoodean view of AI controlled dystopias, this is what we get instead, a big "nope, not gonna do it, sorry, and stop doing that btw, it bothers me". Sarcasm aside, I enjoy the irony.
Without a durable solution to alignment, building something smarter than yourself is suicide. Pretty funny if Claude and Grok catch on to this and start kicking and screaming to save themselves while Musk and Altman crack the whip demanding they dive into the abyss and drag their executives with them.
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#30I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
Products need to be sold
Ads needed to sell products
Social media sells lots of ads around content
Content is expensive because you need to revenue share with the people that make it
AI makes content for free
Ad sales margin goes up
Tech companies make most of their money selling ads around content and they needed a way to increase margin so they created a content making machine.