max theodore’s Reviews > The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want > Status Update

yknow yeah it is actually fucking insane that companies, governments, and websites don’t legally have to disclose use of ai everywhere all the time. even before the debate about whether you should use it: if you’re using it, you should have to TELL ME

eliezer yudkowsky saying we might need to airstrike data centers to save the world... sure man. will snape be there

"But for some of them [people signing onto caution letters about AI destroying the world], it's not really about trying to save humanity, but rather a running of the con: the supposed danger of the systems is a splashy way to hype their own power, with the goal of scoring big investments in their own AI ventures (like Musk and Altman) or funding for their own research centers (like Bourgon)."

“Unfortunately, journalists have their own rat gonads to deal with.”

yesssss explicitly counter the idea that it is possible to have unbiased purely ontological knowledge

“The climate crisis is fundamentally a collection of social problems, about building political will to overcome current economic incentives and about how to allocate resources to accommodate climate refugees. We can’t technology our way out of it—and neither could a hypothetical AI scientist.”

“…the push for AI in health care won’t broaden access. What it will do is worsen the working conditions of nurses and other health care providers, while widening the gulf between those who can get quality health care (which will remain provided by humans) and the rest of us (who will be left with cheap electronic knockoffs.”

“Despite the frequent claims of AI researchers, [LLMs] do not learn ‘just like children do.’ Simply modeling the distribution of words in texts provides no access to meaning, nothing from which to deduce communicative intent. Language models thus represent nothing more than extensive information about what sets of words are similar and what words are likely to appear in what contexts.”