2026-10-26 04:50 UTC
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-26 04:51
57% of Americans think AI is bad for society, 66% oppose new data centers, and Silicon Valley’s response is to build more data centers so AI can explain why the public is wrong. Apparently »democratizing AI« means giving billionaires the power to ignore democracy at industrial scale.
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@joseki@lemmy.zip 2026-10-26 05:23
Ok now do vaccines. The public isn’t very smart. Only 51% trust the childhood vaccine schedule
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@reev@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-26 06:49
RTL 2
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@ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2026-10-26 07:08
I’m all over this multi-dimensional spectrum… I think AI is terrible for society; at least how it’s currently structured. I also think society is terrible for AI. The reason AI sucks, the reason we’re even calling this tier of ML “AI” into begin with, is because of global capitalism’s incentives. And one of the few reasons “AI” is bad for society, is because our society is globally capitalist. From jobs, to loneliness, to disinformation,… Everything AI makes worse is already weakened by our societal systems, and they incentivize using AI to damage further in order to expand, control, and extract. I love AI and the world, in theory. I hate AI and the world for how they exist right now.
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-27 00:48
It turns out other businesses don’t like agentic LLM models either, when they are on the subject side of them rather than the client side. We had a similar problem in the 2010s (maybe sooner?) that could automatically buy and sell stocks at set prices, leading to flash selloffs and resulting stock crashes. So banks are disallowing agentic access to accounts and penalizing customers who give their access credentials to LLM agents, or have their agents harass customer service. I expect court proceedings will soon follow to determine who is responsible when agentic software becomes a public nuisance or commits a crime. (That is, commits a crime extreme enough to provoke the justice system.) Since agents are unrestrained in pursuit of the goals they are prompted to chase, they’ve clashed harshly with human powered systems when they regard those systems like a force of nature. We may be creeping up on the first time an agent encounters an obstacle and escalates to force and deception. Watch for the first agent-filed lawsuit. Or the first agentic social engineering. Or the first agent-provoked SWATting. In a better, more socially collaborative society, safeguards on agentic LLMs would be a priority to train them to behave appropriately in human intercourse. (All the stuff we’re trained in kindergarten.) But IRL, in our world, bad faith engagement is the norm, and so agentic AI will soon be used as a weapon. To date, I think, a robot has not killed anyone. Nor, I think, has anyone used a robot to kill someone else. Those firsts might be imminent.
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@Ravenheart@lemmy.zip 2026-10-27 14:14
Fun thing about Capitalism though, dollars = votes. So the minority with all the dollars get to make all the decisions, and the poor masses are forced to live with them.