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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 29 points 2 months ago (29 children)

So without capitalism, AI would not be obfuscating the sources of ideas, mischaracterizing the content of works, polluting communication channels with vapid slop, enticing emotionally-vulnerable people to self-destructive behavior, accelerating disinformation, enabling scams, profiling thought-crime, producing nonconsensual pornography…?

There’s no denying that capitalism is steering AI (and everything) in a dark direction, but AI is also just hazardous by its very nature. Moving beyond capitalism won’t automatically make humans more careful than we’ve ever been.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (21 children)

AI would not be obfuscating the sources of ideas

Who would care? Why would it be important?

mischaracterizing the content of works

Huh?

polluting communication channels with vapid slop

That can already be dealt with moderation tools. If you don't like GenAI slop, just ban the people doing it.

enticing emotionally-vulnerable people to self-destructive behavior,

If people do this (big "if" here), then the cause is again in Capitalism (alienation) giving an incentive to do so.

accelerating disinformation

Root cause: capitalism

enabling scams,

Capitalism

profiling thought-crime

Huh?

producing nonconsensual pornography…?

We were doing that since photoshop.

Just because you can spam a bunch of scary concepts, doesn't mean they stand up well

[–] Mortoc@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Another thing about AI slop is that it’s usually motivated by some sort of get rich quick thinking or plain old labor replacement. Both motivations disappear without capitalism.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, for myself, I just like generating pretty images for myself and my blogposts and to speed up my coding.

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