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"Most of the executives hoping to profit off AI are in a similar state of mind. All the free money right now is going to AI businesses. They know the best way to chase that money is to throw logic to the wind and promise the masses that if we just let this technology run roughshod over every field of human endeavor it’ll be worth it in the end.

This is rational for them, because they’ll make piles of money. But it is an irrational thing for us to let them do. Why would we want to put artists and illustrators out of a job? Why would we accept a world where it’s impossible to talk to a human when you have a problem, and you’re instead thrown to a churning swarm of chatbots? Why would we let Altman hoover up the world’s knowledge and resell it back to us?"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/

(The framing of AI as a religious cult isn't a new phenomenon. I wrote about it in 2018: https://www.boundary2.org/2018/08/tante/ , AI has always been a religious movement)