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I'll agree with you there, I shot myself in the arm when I was only 3 with a pellet gun. My dad realized his mistake and kept all guns away from me, until age 10, when he took me out to shoot some bottles and cans, and teach me proper gun safety.
Yes that might have been an earlier childhood lesson than many parents might agree to, but he was proper about what and when he taught me. Like, aside from the obvious of keep the gun on safety and never point it at anyone or anything unless you intend to use it, who thinks of things like, don't lean on a rifle with the barrel in the dirt? The dirt can and will clog the barrel and cause the gun to explode!
Anyways, back on point of AI...
Most parents aren't just up and giving their kids guns, but major corporations are shoving this AI shit up everyone's asses, as much as they can anyways, knowing good and well that one AI model says 1+2+3=15 and another AI model is suggesting people suffering pain to use heroin...
So what's the answer, avoid AI? Well fuck Google then.....
They knew what I meant and chose to ignore the meaning to avoid the question.
Why can guns be something that can be responsibly used but AI cannot?
One can simply decide to never use a gun.
You don't get that option with AI these days if you simply want to Google something, they force you to use it. Google, Alexa, Siri, fuck our own US government is now using Grok!
Is the gun in the metaphor held to your head? Google... Or else?
More or less yeah.
You are so close to getting it...
Okay, I'll bite.
What am I missing here NewPerspective?