Re:Ask HN: Are you don’t like AI and why?
by superchroma on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:39AM
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- It costs jobs from fields that didn't need jobs taken away.
- It costs more jobs than it creates.
- It's the new meme tech, ala SAAS, Cloud, etc. that I have to tolerate now. I love seeing a "Chat with bing!" button, that's great.
- It's flush with cash due to the US having tonnes of play money to throw around, enabling irresponsible behavior such as pricing below cost.
- It's an unsolved ethical problem. Sampling in music requires attribution, comparatively.
- It lowers the barrier to entry for bad actors to gain legitimacy. Good actors never needed great art or anything else AI can do if they made things with care and skills they had.
- The world didn't need more content. It is awash with content already.
A better question is what problems does AI really solve? Are those benefits worth the massive cost?
- It costs more jobs than it creates.
- It's the new meme tech, ala SAAS, Cloud, etc. that I have to tolerate now. I love seeing a "Chat with bing!" button, that's great.
- It's flush with cash due to the US having tonnes of play money to throw around, enabling irresponsible behavior such as pricing below cost.
- It's an unsolved ethical problem. Sampling in music requires attribution, comparatively.
- It lowers the barrier to entry for bad actors to gain legitimacy. Good actors never needed great art or anything else AI can do if they made things with care and skills they had.
- The world didn't need more content. It is awash with content already.
A better question is what problems does AI really solve? Are those benefits worth the massive cost?