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   TCat likes reality (tcatinreality@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 17:19:47 JST TCat likes reality

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   • Emeritus Prof Christopher May

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   👏👏👏. I think "robber barons" is exactly the term for today's late stage capitalists.

   The most depressing thing about AI is that all this destruction isn't to create more accurate output that lifts society. But rather to produce quicker, plausible sounding output to benefit corporate margins.

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     Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 17:19:48 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

     As it becomes ever clearer (and documented) that artificial intelligence is highly dependent on exploiting human labour - from creatives whose content is stolen, to the low-paid staff who help sort & train AI programmes - once again we can see that a 'new economy' promised by the Tee-shirted 'revolutionaries' of Silicon Valley is nothing other than a reboot of C19th exploitative economic practice....

     So, one important Q. for modern society is how to bring these new robber barons to heel!

     #AI

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