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Until when? The only way to avoid societal impact of AI is to either stop it for decades until we reach some utopia UBI state or lobotomize current generative AI to a point where it's useless.
Biggest issue is the first one. Dataset copyrights are where most of the fight b/w regulators, AI companies & artists is happening.

Should you be able to train your model on an image or text someone uploaded on the internet without buying the copyright? If no, then most of current LLMs & stable diffusion models will have to go & I don't see big tech allowing it.

Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:49PM (#37331146)
The Cisco case was dismissed as false recently. The person was found not guilty of any caste based discrimination. Caste issue in America is mostly made up. Indians who have money to go from India to US don't care about castes in the first place
Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:45PM (#37331118)
In the US, caste is mostly a made up issue. Most 95% Indian Americans are upper caste or rich land owning OBCs (like the professor who wrote this blog). Who exactly are they discriminating against then?

Lot of grifters like Equality Labs have made this issue in US bigger than it seems. Most Indian American kids probably don't even know their own caste.

Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:34PM (#37331040)
The point is no one is discriminating against Jaats, the group the professor belongs to. They are one of the richest & powerful groups in India. The blog is very misleading since caste based discrimination against Jatts is unheard of.

In fact the group the professor belongs to is responsible for 80% of caste based discriminations that happen in India.

Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:52PM (#37328013)
Its amazing how this thread has so many comments when the professor belongs to Jatt OBC subcaste, a land owning caste & one of the most affluent subcastes.

Any Indian would have stopped reading after that. How are Jatts discriminated against? If anything they are favoured. But the whole thread is filled with white progressives who know nothing about caste

Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:47PM (#37327929)
> Glad Seattle passed a law against caste discrimination

Yes, the law can be used both ways. A brahmin can sue a Dalit for discriminating. Which is much better than the draconian SC/ST law in India. Given that 90%-95% of Indians in America are upper caste + OBC, good luck using that law.

Most American Indians don't even know what caste they are from but the demand for discrimination & racism has outgrown the supply so white progressives have nothing but to talk about caste.

Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:39PM (#37327818)
People here don't realise OBCs are land owning castes & highly affluential & rich. The professor is a Jatt, probably one of the most powerful subcastes in India. OBCs are responsible for 80% of caste based atrocities themselves.

The professor has written a bunch of BS hoping that white progressives will eat it up. Any Indian would have stopped reading after finding out the professor is not even SC/ST but OBC.

Re:On (My) Caste on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:33PM (#37327711)
> Caste problems continue in the US

The thread is filled with white progressives who know nothing about caste. There are what 2 cases of caste discrimination in US companies. In one of the cases (the famous Cisco) case was proven there was no discrimination.

The professor who wrote this blog is literally a Jatt. A land owning caste & one of the most powerful castes in India. Any Indian reading this blog will know this is BS. I would understand if the author was at least Dalit or ST.