AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society

Re:AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society by sneak on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:05AM (#46131085)

> It's [sic] promise is unlimited value to everyone on demand

No, it’s not. This is where your concept fails. AI is a tool, like any other tool. It doesn’t provide unlimited anything, and, furthermore, it needs human inputs and direction to provide anything. “Go make me a profitable startup from scratch” is not a useful prompt.

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Re:AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society by barrell on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:12AM (#46131128)

But that is exactly the promise that the heads of the AI labs are making. Sam Altman is repeatedly saying he wants to be able to ask it "go discover a new branch of physics".

Perhaps it's not how you use LLMs, but it is the promise of AI.

For the record, I make a distinction between LLMs (a current tool that we have today) and AI (a promise of some mystical all-powerful science-fiction entity).

There is nothing intelligent about what we have today, artificial or otherwise.

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