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Are there any genuine benefits to AI? (self.technology)
submitted 9 months ago by fiddlestix to c/technology
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I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something here? Are there any genuine benefits?

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[–] SinningStromgald 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No no you found the actual "use" for AI as far as businesses go. They don't care about the human cost of adopting AI and firing large swaths of workers just profits.

Which is why governments should be quickly moving to highly regulate AI and it's uses. But governments are slow plodding things full of old people who get confused with toasters.

As always capitalism kills.

[–] fiddlestix 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is the part that bothers me the most, I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Trouble is the best way to regulate it isn't clear. If the new tool can do the job at least as well and cheaper, just disallowing it is less beneficial to society. You can tax its use until it is only a little cheaper, but then you have to get people to approve of taxes. Et cetera