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Re:Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude by elmer2 on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:37AM (#50210812)
If AI can find cancers faster than a human, which they've already proven, it's tradeoff that's worth it. It's only getting better and there's no telling how else it will benefit humanity.

Governments are always at least a decade behind when it comes to technology. Just don't complain when they have massive data breaches weekly, because they decided their principals were more important.

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Re:Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude by InitialLastName on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:44PM (#50213591)
Your latter point belies the former: The the trade-off is only worth it if the data centers are used for purposes that benefit humanity. As yet, all we've seen them used for is wealth consolidation (through labor force reduction), mass surveillance, hacking, and other antisocial behaviors. There's no reason to believe those won't persist as the profit-maximizing use cases.
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