Comment Re: Taking the argument to the extreme... (Score 1) 94
Well, right in the summary it says ChatGPT gave the kid a "pep talk" encouraging him to actually carry out the suicide.
Well, right in the summary it says ChatGPT gave the kid a "pep talk" encouraging him to actually carry out the suicide.
Cars already have odometers which record and show mileage, they already have annual inspections where the value from the odometer is checked and recorded and there are already legal penalties for tampering with the odometer. It would be trivial to pull that data out of the existing database and levy taxes on the vehicle owner based on that.
You don't need a GPS, cars already record how many miles they travel.
You are welcome.
Doesn't matter, it's those that drafted and signed the contracts that are the problems.
the hunger by the 1% to remove as much humanity from the workplace is sickening.
they fully know they are destroying the middle and lower classes (even more than they already have).
they, like the R party, just dont care. they think they are rich and insulated enough. they never cared what their own people need. the 'let them eat cake' time has come back again, but even worse.
there will be no thought to social systems needed to support the unemployed (which will be many of us, given enough time).
I'm glad I'm retiring soon. I would not want to compete in a job market that bosses think can be done by computer, alone.
and I would not want to be the 'prompt meister' to try to coax answers from the machines that make sense.
some see a great future with AI. I see nothing but doom and gloom. the greed factor is strong in humans and the class disparity will cause rioting and civil wars.
maybe not wars. the US has created a special police force that is above the law, so any uprisings will EASILY be dealt with. they thought about that. ICE is not just for foreigners. its a general purpose police force answerable only to 1 person.
people, please show me I'm wrong. but all signs point to a very bad future for 95% of the 'thinks for a living' workforce.
If you have a "diverse" group than an inherent part of diversity is that some of the group will disagree with diversity and even be hostile to the greater good of the group.
There are many who perceive countries that welcome immigrants to be gullible idiots that they can take advantage of, and will take advantage while it's beneficial to them and then quickly abandon that country if it's no longer to their advantage.
So you can only benefit from limited diversity, the members of the group must still have common goals and values otherwise they'll be detrimental to the group as a whole.
The difference between the AI slop machine and Amazon or Uber is that even when those were losing money, it was none the less clear that if they scaled up then scaling efficiencies would yield a lower cost/unit and they'd become profitable. The pathway to making money instead of setting it on fire clearly existed. It also existed because it was clear even before they super-scaled that Amazon and Uber were doing something useful for which where existed a demand.
So far all we are seeing with the generative AI delusion is an exponentially exploding waste of resources in order to pollute my Youtube feed with slop. Every enterprise is trying "AI" and essentially all of them are finding it does not do what the people selling the tin claim it can.
There were no Amazon, or Uber or Internet evangelists trying to convince everyone that those things were useful or invent uses for them because there was no need: the value was obvious and real.
Isn't Uber still losing money?
Amazon had a plan for profitability, so much so they took on more debt in the early days to scale up. A gamble that paid off because they had a solid plan to begin with, not a "hope the magic beans drop into our laps before we run out of money" type of plan that AI companies have. Uber's business plan was "lets keep doing illegal shit that our competitors cant and just hope we become big enough not to fail".
Shove Ts&Cs down users' throats and blame the victim while trying to deflect the responsibility.
Erm... that's the whole point of a T&C/EULA/et al. To limit legal liability and as a defence against being sued. Which is one of the reasons most countries do not treat them as binding contracts.
Crappy people at work. We really need to make greed a punishable offense in some areas.
You mean unlike the US pharma price-gouging, where people pay 20x as much as they do for basically the same product with the same safety in other places? Let's hope so. Americans may find out that most things can actually be treated without sending you into medical bankruptcy.
Indeed. Profit-driven is not enough.
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"