
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:
Them: I'm interested in AI ethics
Me: Oh like Enclosure of the digital commons?
Them: No
Me: De facto torture of Black people to curate the ChatGPT training corpus for starvation wages?
Them: No
Me: The environmental impact of manufacturing and constantly running server farms, and the colonial and exploitative nature of that?
Them: No
Me: Important decisions made by a machine that basically does bias laundering?
Them: No, like if the AI might be sentient
Me: (Internal screaming)