It occurred to me that, despite its absolute laundry list of flaws and impossible claims, the major perceptual problem with “AI” is that it’s being hoisted upon us by a handful of tech bros, instead of regular people being part of the process.
When you have a handful of narcissistic, clearly biased and self-interested, possibly delusional people force their product upon the masses with little regard for the negative environmental, societal, and economic impact, the only outcome can be masses of negative sentiment.
If (and I say this using every grain of salt imaginable) AI lives up to even 5% of the hype, then it will be vastly disruptive across the board, and we, the little people, will be the ones who have to deal with and suffer through those changes. The creators of this failed product (OpenAI resorting to advertising in ChatGPT was a tacit admission of this failure) will not be the ones bearing the brunt of it.
Why would anyone be happy about that?
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