Technology

Maybe the kids are gonna be alright, after all.

I'm so blackpilled on the average person. These stats mean nothing because the average person not trusting a tech company does absolutely nothing to push them away from it. 80% distrust AI but 50% use it and the stat is growing.

I don't just think AI should be regulated, I think everyone at the hyperscaler companies should be criminally indicted. Every employee at OpenAI and Anthropic working on AI development should be indicted on 8 million counts of child endangerment.

The relevant statute is California 273a.

It is a crime in the state of California to allow a child to be placed in a position where great harm could come to them. For example, people have been indicted under this statute because they had drugs in the same house as young children. Even if no children are actually hurt, simply putting them in a situation where harm is likely is the crime.

It would normally be quite difficult to prove that the actions of OpenAI and others are endangering children. But the very words of these companies would be the first exhibit of the prosecution. They've openly confessed to their crimes! These very same companies and their leaders have repeatedly said that they're building machines that they themselves believe have a reasonable chance of destroying humanity. And the children of California are a subset of humanity.

Whether their claims are realistic or not, I cannot say. But I simply cannot believe that it is legal to build a machine that you yourself believe could destroy the world. We're so glazed over by the novelty of AI that we forget to treat it like any other threat. In most places it is a crime to perform some action that you believe has a realistic chance of hurting people, even if you have no intention or desire to hurt people.

Well, according to OpenAI, the machines they are building represent a very real risk to the life and safety of every child in the State of California. I see no reason that they shouldn't be charged with millions of counts of child endangerment. According to their own words, they are literally putting the lives of children at risk. That is a crime. That is not legal. And we should stop pretending it is.

As an old person I can also say that old people don't trust AI, or the leaders of those companies, or the current administration...

You shouldn't trust billionaires at all. Even the "good ones". You don't get a billion net worth without exploiting people

I don’t trust anyone who is impressed by LLMs enough to consider them to be in any way adjacent to intelligence.

Nah, why would anyone love AI when we can just--

Let's all love Lain!

there you go! keep using that noggin!

I mean, the marketing people should have been able to tell management that too.

Most everything I do is local but I don’t trust AI anymore than I trust any other tool. If it gives code that works or instructions to do what I need great. Even when it’s wrong I’m learning something new.

I totally agree about the billionaires. I absolutely don’t trust these dickheads running the shit show… Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison… Fuck everyone of these guys. Everyone of them is a rich asshole trying to scheme as much as they can out of the system. I think their end goal is to put people out of work so they can automate as much as possible so they don’t rely on anything else. If AGI or superintelligence arrives within the decade, whoever controls it controls the economy that follows. It will be such a game changer nobody is even close to prepared for it.

Go read “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Colossus by D.F. Jones, or maybe Accelerando by Charles Stross. None of these end well.

"Young people increasingly don't appear to be incredibly dumb, survey finds."

Its me! I am young again!

billionaires tell people to love the thing they are trying to get them hooked on so that they can run a rampant monopoly and make some more billions.

If you remove yourself from the equation maybe there is some chance. So if you really love AI, perhaps fuck off.

I could imagine they increasingly don't trust politicians either.
It's almost as if there is a pattern there isn't it?
Maybe we are being filled with more bullshit all around than we have ever been!

my experience, that all my collegues who are aroubd 28-35, use a shitload of ai. younger generation is now using it instead of google search.

If AI gave correct answers 95% of the time instead of <50%, didn't cause massive inflation in computer parts and doesn't completely fuck the environment I'd be somewhat in favor of it.

Good. Young people are hip to what's going on and that is uplifting.

My previous work enforced the use of AI for everything besides wipping your own butt. I was a senior dev and adamantly refused to use it for ethical reasons.

Not once have I touched it, not once I felt I needed it. I said as much whenever I had meetings with eng. managers and I could provably argue that I was doing very fine without it, I was in fact as much or more productive than my AI addled colleagues and furthermore I found many severe bugs in their PRs. I saw the code quality and stability of my project take a deep plunge because of Claude. They said it was company policy to use.. but because it was not on my contract and I was not falling behind on any of my responsibilities I answered I would rather be fired than to use AI. I never was. I kept at this for a year, and finally changed to somewhere where my judgement on when and where to use these things is more important than KPIs.

It's not that I didn't see a use case for AI - I saw very minor use cases for dashboards and quick insight into logs - but as much as I can I don't allow managers and KPIs to have this much control over how I work and which tools I use.

I've been in IT since 2007 I've been with computers since 1994 with a second hand MS DOS.

AI is 100 very good for scientists and people in the medical industry (I don't know why, but I know they've all told me it's good for them). Outside of the above.. Everything else about AI is pointless.. It's just googling things slightly faster than I can google things.

No longer surprised, as the Butlerian Jihad should ever expand.