Comment on AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 year agoYes, this the setup for regulatory capture before regulation has even been conceived. The likes of OpenAI would like nothing more than to be legally declared the only stewards of this “dangerous” technology. The constant doom laden hype that people keep falling for is all part of the plan.
lily33@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think calling it “dangerous” in quotes is a bit disingenuous - because there is real potential for danger in the future - but what this article wants is totally not the way to manage that.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would be an obvious attempt at pulling up the ladder if we were to see regulation on ai before we saw regulation on data collection from social media companies. Wen have already seen that weaponized. Why are we going to regulate something before it gets weaponized when we have other recent tech, unregulated, being weaponized?
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I saw a post the other day about how people crowd sourced scraping grocery store prices. They could present a good case for price fixing and collusion. Web scraping is already pretty taboo and this AI fear mongering will be the thing that is used to make it illegal.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It won’t be illegal because there is repeated supreme court precedent for it to be categorically legal.
techcrunch.com/2022/…/web-scraping-legal-court/