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 (DIR) Post #AxXXj2WtfojApyGTmC by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
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       Dear anti-AI folk: I hear you, but, please please please, complain about lacking laws and regulations, complain about the specific things you don't like, because being "against AI" is tone deaf, it doesn't arrive and it's too generic to act upon.Whether #AI is here to stay I cannot predict, but in either case it's the boundaries we set right now that will be important for the coming decades/eons, so to actually exert control don't be against AI, be against lack of regulation and control thereof
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXXj3yaIMT9K8E6ZU by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
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       To be absolutely clear: this post is NOT pro-AI.I'm saying that, for better or for worse, it exists, and people are using it, and will keep using it.It's like cars. I can totally understand why people would be against cars as a whole.But they're here right now, they're being used right now, and the risks exist right now.So you need rules and laws to avoid problems, cuz even if course ideally one might say we get rid of the entire concept so you don't have the problem, that's not realistic.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXXj56Q6iKaoitsQK by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
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       Addendum 2: actually you know what, it's fine to hate AI, it's fine to hate cars, and want things gone, just make sure that you ALSO fight for actual legislation and safety regulation and what not else. That's my main point in the end; for better or worse they are here and have to be dealt with right nowAnd regulating is literally about avoiding what you don't like. I think the anti AI camp makes excellent points, just, they're entirely ignored when they're packaged in blind hate w/o direction
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXXj5v74EsfLwcMRE by anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
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       And you know what while we're on the subject anyway;AI is not your enemy. Software is not your enemy. A knife doesn't make a killer. Please go after the people that abuse the tools; neither did they need the tools to do damage, nor does it help targeting this abstract construct when in reality it is people doing bad things, which now get to hide behind this abstract construct.The bad people who abuse AI don't care if you vilify it, it'll just serve as a distraction from their crime