Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Philip K. Dick has a short story (“Autofac”) in which autonomous, self-replicating factories continue to operate and produce goods long after a global war has wiped out most of humanity, and they eat up all remaining resources on earth in doing so. I worry that there’s a system in which a few extremely rich people can continue thriving without involvement of most of humanity, and that they’re (knowingly or unknowingly) moving society in that direction. Who needs the commoners when AI and algorithms can simulate them.

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  • Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    IIUC the calculation of GDP doesn’t factor in whether the produced goods serve a human need - the system can in theory continue to optimize for ever-increasing GDP while every human on earth starves to death.

    There’s an old joke I remember about economists and the GDP.

    Two economists are walking through the jungle and come across a gigantic pile of lion scat. One turns to the other and said I’ll pay you 100$ to eat a bite of that shit.
    Being an economists and 100$ being worth a lot, the guy eats the shit and gets paid.
    A little while later they come across a pile of rhino dung. The now richer economist turns to the first and offers 100$ for him to take a bite out of this pile. 100$ is again a lot of money so he does it and eats the shit.
    As they’re walking along, both picking their teeth, one turns to the other and asks “did we both just eat shit for nothing?” And the other days “of course not, now the GDP of the jungle has increased by 200$!”

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  • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct, GDP is a dumb measure, and even it’s inventor said it cannot be used alone.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah we need to be kept employed at around 94% while we starve to death.

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well, technically 100% employment wouldn’t be desirable, that would mean nobody can ever switch jobs or take some time off from working to deal with some personal issues or projects.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think of GDP as muscle mass on a body builder.

      At a certain point, it just stops making sense and being healthy.

      Some can’t even scratch their own backs anymore, duh.

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  • fed0sine@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Check out The Forever Winter, it incorporates the autofac into its world building.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who needs the commoners when AI and algorithms can simulate them.

    Being rich doesn’t exist in a vacuum but only in relation to other people, meaning if only billionaires survive, they’re not rich anymore. They need the poor majority.

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    • WamGams@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The sad fact of money is its only worth something the moment it leaves your hands.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Electric Dreams did an autofac episode that was really good

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• TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Amazon: fake products AND fake reviews

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  • bokherif@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    90% of products in amazon are just marked up temu products lmao

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or aliexpress.

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• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  dead internet

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