the AI bros behind it. The robber barons who trained the flawed, hallucinating tech via the theft of the world's intellectual property, with no intention of ever compensating all those whose work they stole. And no jntention, either, of ever helping provide a UBI for the hundreds of millions if not billions they expect to end up unemployed.
The AI bros already know generative AI is dumbing down users, wrecking education, harming both the natural environment and our information ecosystem, enabling all sorts of misinformation and deepfakes (including deepfake porn) and scams and fraud, creating a very dangerous financial bubble, worsening wealth inequality with much worse to come, making 24/7 surveillance of everyone possible (any authoritarian's dream), and speeding up weaponry with the added "bonus" of hallucinations that can kill people they never intended to kill, or wrongly intended to kill because the AI hallucinated and chose the wrong targets, or because it escalated responses to the point where - whoops! - World War Three or last. Which former Google CEO Erjc Schmidt admitted could be over in a few minutes, thanks to AI.
The AI bros don't care about any of those harms. They're dreaming of a future where they control their own network states (read Gil Duran) and where they're first to develop a magic superintelligent AI that will also magically decide to reward its relatively stupid creators with godlike powers and immortality, most likely via some sort of fusion with the machine.
The AI bros will admit superintelligent AI might wipe out humanity, too.
They don't care, if there's even the slightest chance they'll get there first and it will be the kindly magical AI they're dreaming of.
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