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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Just like how not buying guns is easy. For the people who get it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Guns can be concealed and smuggled.

    Compute warehouses the size of football fields that consume huge amounts of electricity and water absolutely can't. They can all be found extremely easily and shut down, and it would be extremely easy to prevent more from being built.

    This isn't hard.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    It's a weird argument to say "we could just stop doing popular things". It shows a lack of awareness. And no, explaining this doesn't mean I'm taking sides I just recognize the current reality

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The right thing isn't always popular. Something being popular is not itself a good argument for a thing to be done.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    Why do you think I'm saying it's the right thing? I explicitly said I wasn't arguing for it. It's pretty obvious I'm just pointing out what the rich fucks will do. Wishing upon a star won't change it

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    There is an option of not doing a thing just because a rich fuck wants you to. It's mind-blowing, I know.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    What the fuck are you talking about? You idiots cannot fathom a world where you cannot accurately shovel words into strangers' mouths.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (6 children)

    I'm talking about just because the rich fucks want you to use a thing, that doesn't mean you have to use the fucking thing.

    Edit: But since in this case they lose money every time you use it maybe we should just automate using it as much as possible for useless shit on free accounts to speed the collapse.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Your implication seems to be I advocate for something I don't and it's dumb

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Whatever dude, it's a discussion of hypotheticals. Unless Sam Altman somehow involved himself in the chat, nobody here is influencing if any of this happens.

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    not really, you're all up and down the thread getting all excited about people discussing a hypothetical

    unless the folks involved are extremely delusional, they already know that what they want has little to do with what will happen

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    It's not "popular" organically, it's being forced on us by people who are invested in the technology. The chatbots are being shoved into everything because they want to make them profitable despite being money holes, not because people want it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    And even if they do succeed in producing something useful. If you become dependent on a megacorp's AI to do your job, why shouldn't they charge you half your salary for the privilege?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's what the boosters aren't talking about.

    The chatbots are not profitable. They'll need to charge way more for usage at some point to actually make money; at some point investors are going to demand returns on their investments, and that's going to come out of user's pockets.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, they shouldn't be popular. Tell all your friends.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, fair, the existence of AI should be credited to my comments in this thread. The fact that some idiot stated on Lemmy that it's easy to stop AI though? Almost thwarted the entire operation. Next time!

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