Miriam has a good and heartbreaking post on the current state of technology in light of the pushers of technology wanting to eradicate her existence1.
The beliefs of these CEOs aren’t incidental to the AI product they’re selling us. These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us. To poison our access to jobs, and our access to information at the same time.
The inherent biases and errors in AI were covered well in Not with a Bug but with a Sticker. AI is trained with the biases of the world, and it’s programmers. These errors and bad data can never be trained out once in.
Tom Nichols talked about2 the phenomenon of the simply scrolling on the internet without reading sources making people feel like they learned about the topic based on the titles of search results. I can only see this getting stronger with AI as we often trust an AI agent more than what we read on the internet3.
When techno-optimist profit driven people who question the rights of fellow humans to exist are running and building AI the output of that AI is going to trend us closer to their ideas, and people are going to trust the output of AI agents.
I struggle with AI because I think that it stole the output of my work, and many others, using it for purposes I didn’t allow or consent to. I also have solved many bugs in code after hours of looking on the web that were only ended when I put in a vague question to an AI tool and had the answer back within a few seconds. AI has made improved the code I write and I can’t justify not using it assuming I have to go back to hours of searching instead of a few minutes of AI usage, but I don’t want that to be the case.