Proving Canada's well down the road to fascism 🫤

When it comes to the harms of these systems, that has a lot more to do with how these companies allow use of these tools...

The real harm is in these tools being pushed as learning tools, medical advice, companionship, etc. That they can even give medical advice seems like something Doctor's Unions should be suing over, I can't do it so why can the AI's? Using these in learning situations is demonstrably doing the opposite, inducing cognitive offloading and dependency. The companionship thing is probably the most dangerous facet, it's causing genuine psychosis in some people and honestly I feel that is by design.

None of this has to be for these tools to be used for coding. They represent a regulatory failure (complicity?) to constrain the dangerous uses.

Whereas I work with a small studio (<10 ppl) as the only programmer, asking Claude for bug hunting in regex's and shader code has saved my behind a few times.

I'd argue there is a responsible way to use these tools. Letting an agent run amok in my project folder is a hard no; I ask about specific issues, providing generalized code, and insert and test the code by hand to ensure reliability. The amount of code inserted by an AI is zero, but the code written by AI would be <1% of my codebase.

I might use the tools for coding but I advocate locally to keep them out of schools, and support all efforts to limit the harms. You can use a tool for a useful purpose (hammer for a nail), while still restricting that tool's usage (wielding a hammer to threaten people). So I disagree that using these tools is tantamount endorsing them for all purposes.

Frankly I've never paid any of them a dime, so I'm actually driving up their costs and hastening the decline 🤷

Ban cars near schools.

I mean, sure people shouldn't try to scam others, but cheaters never prosper. Whether they buy AI generated notes or the human made notes, the buyer's not actually doing the learning.

They should just read the text book and ask questions in class.

Deep down inside they all wish they were a goose.

Before AI you were best to go visit Wikipedia.

Today, anyone paying for this sort of thing is just a griftable fool that was going to lose their money anyways.

At least some foreign billionaire will make more money. /s

Carney's probably gearing up to say this is in the National Interest™

No. PP would be an ineffective PM and wouldn't get half the stuff Carney wants pushed through. Carney clearly wants a further facist slide, and knows he has to do it if it's going to get done.

Wishes and prayers for road safety...

There's a number that's going to keep going up 🫤

These things abuse deep psychology. Our ability to anthropomorphize inanimate objects is being (purposefully) targeted by these LLM's, and it goes deeper than intelligence.

This harm was first postulated back in the 70's with Eliza and is fully coming to fruition with the widespread use and shudder "trust" of these tools.

Corporate welfare is bad enough, but these subsidies are deeply offensive; giving money to ridiculously profitable corporations to keep doing the thing we need to stop doing to avoid burning the planet...

This is how we get to record production with ever increasing automation, ensuring none flows back to Canadian pockets.