Comment by wvenable
2 days ago
> Believing that, say, the use of AI will primarily enrich billionaires that are already doing societal harm is not clouding one's view of AI. It is one's view of AI.
That's fine. Nobody is forcing you to use AI. I dislike it when people force their ideas onto others.
> My goal getting on the Internet is to connect with other actual people and their creativity.
It's too bad your goal doesn't include interacting with people who don't speak your language and use AI to translate for them. Or people who struggle with writing in general. I don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be.
> Nobody is forcing you to use AI. I dislike it when people force their ideas onto others.
I'm still being forced to live in a world filled with people who do use it and whose behavior affects me.
We had the President of the United States posting AI-manipulated propaganda on social media. Millions of voters saw that, regardless of whether or not I happen to personally use ChatGPT.
It doesn't matter if I light up a cigarette myself if I have to spend all day in a crowded bar where everyone else is smoking.
> I don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be.
I'm not saying it's black and white. All I'm saying is that your description of someone's strong feelings about AI as "clouding" their stance is incorrect. You can be clear-headed about feeling something is a large net negative for the world.
> I'm still being forced to live in a world filled with people who do use it and whose behavior affects me.
My point... way at the top... is exactly that. People's behavior does have an effect but it always has.
The President of the United States posting manipulated propaganda is the problem; using AI now just makes it more obvious. It's actually better, right now, that it is so obvious. But anyone can, and has, done that with lesser tools to better affect.
People posting bullshit on the Internet has always been a problem. I'm not even sure how an AI ban is enforceable. While I don't think I have the solution, I think it makes more sense to look at this as content problem instead of tool problem. Both quality and quantity.