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Yea ... as many have said (at least in the earlier stages of the chatGPT release/hype) ... it's not AI that you fear, it's capitalism and what it will do with and even to AI that you fear.
I feel like I've seen less talk about this essential idea as time has gone on, and I think that's rather problematic. Even if you're not stridently against capitalism, I would imagine that there's a fairly wide space in which anti-capitalists and pro-capitalists critical of the current state of affairs can find common ground on what unfettered AI usage will wreak in terms of individual's rights (proprietary and otherwise) and generating monopolising effects.
I've had similar frustration with conversations that focus on how devastating AI will be, without much mention of who is responsible or how to hold them accountable. One person compared my take to "guns don't kill people, people kill people." I feel like responsibility has already been successfully deflected and we've barely gotten started. I don't even know how to have that conversation at this point.
And that take IS still true.
Though of course a strong argument for background checks, reasonable limits, safety, etc...
The US isn't the only country with plenty of guns, but IS the only place this keeps happening.
Plenty of countries have knives all about. Only China had spree child stabbing.
Because its about culture and social conditions.