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This needs to be totally outlawed.

The scale and scope of the potential harms here are almost inconceivable.

Source thread for many examples

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I agree with your sentiment, but in a world where bitcoin is allowed to exist, it’s hard to complain about the energy cost of AI.
What? Because something else is a bigger contributor, we can’t complain about AI? This seems like a corollary of the fallacy of relative privation.

Crypto being worse (from a climate standpoint, anyway) doesn’t make AI any less bad. They’re both cancers.
 
I'm starting to think that's the point. Better than telling the masses to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears - have them decide to do that all on their own.
Yes, this will only entrench people further into their priors. People will uncritically embrace anything they see (real or AI) that supports their preexisting notions, and dismiss as AI anything that doesn’t. Whether anything is real or fictitious anymore will be beside the point.

Did that early provision in Trump’s BBB declaring no legal oversight on AI can take place over 10+ years make its way to the final bill? If so, we’re screwed.
 
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