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liv@lemmy.nz 3 weeks agoThat’s really interesting. Its output to this prompt totally ignored the biggest and most obviously detrimental effect of this problem at scale.
Namely, the increased power of AI’s big tech company owners over people that emotional dependence creates.
It’s not as if these concepts aren’t widely discussed online, everything from Meta’s emotional manipulation experiments or Cambridge Analytica through to the meltdowns Replika owners had over changes to the algorithm are relevant here.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s the 4th point
liv@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Sort of but I think influence over emotional states is understating it and just the tip of the iceberg. It also made it sound passive and accidental. The real problem will be overt control as a logical extension to the kinds of trade offs we already see people make about, for example data privacy. With the Replika fiasco I bet heaps of those people would have paid good money to get their virtual love interests de-“lobotomized”.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think this power to shape the available knowledge, removing it, paywalling it, based on discrimination, leveraging it, and finally manipulating for advertising, state security and personnal reason is why it should be illegal to privately own any ML/ AI models of any kind. Drive them all underground and only let the open ones benefit from sales in public.