Comment by amazingamazing
1 day ago
AI use is far more prevalent now than then sadly. This kind of scheme is inevitable since compute is not free.
1 day ago
AI use is far more prevalent now than then sadly. This kind of scheme is inevitable since compute is not free.
Water use and mass displacement of labor get all the attention but there are so many other more subtle reasons like this that AI is going to be bad for society.
I disagree that this kind of scheme is inevitable. We can "evit" it through thoughtful discussion, foresight, alternative mitigations, and even regulation. Certainly, Google can choose to avoid it. On the other hand, the AI bubble will inevitably burst, since compute is not free. I look forward to post-bubble AI.
“Evit” is “avoid” in English, they have the same root.
> We can "evit" it through thoughtful discussion, foresight, alternative mitigations, and even regulation
Such as? I don't see how regulation would apply here without concrete technical solutions that enforce it. So what alternative mitigations do you have in mind?
Among many other things: Regulate the use of AI to imitate or impersonate human activity. Regulate AI crawling/scraping. Ban scraping entirely, and all models based on it. Regulate maximum model size.
These wouldn't eliminate the problem, but they'd change it from "many people do this" to "this is always a malicious attack, react accordingly".
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