Yeah we all hear the main arguments… AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly… how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I’m asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
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I’m against restrictions in uses because as you mentioned, the state will use it in warfare and police applications. To restrict when and how people can use AI will just take it away from the hands of the proletariat and put it all in the hands of the state, without leaving us anything in return. If the adversary has tanks then you need anti-tank mines and grenades, you can’t defeat them with the power of small arms alone. Same with AI, if we don’t follow because of some purity principles it creates an imbalance and will we celebrate purposely making things harder for ourselves?
The other alternative is to burn down all of Western AI so China and the global south can emerge ahead but I feel what’s more likely to happen in that case is AI gets “restricted”, and it just goes out of the public view. There’s a reason the White House is dumping 500 billion dollars into AI development, and it’s not so we can make cat videos on Instagram.
For this reason open-source advances are important so we can run better models on consumer hardware, because these can’t be taken away once they’re downloaded.