baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Any scenario where "AI" works well enough to be in wide use long term means mass unemployment, wholesale political capture of media and cultural industries, dysfunctional products, and other continuing large-scale harms
The thankfully bullshit "AGI" scenario would just be an unending clusterfuck
Which is why "this is shit and you're a fool for using it" is the optimistic take
The best case scenario for the rest of us is that we have to clean up after a bunch of fools in the tech industry