Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We might be willing to recognize AI as a boon to society, if it came with systemic reforms to balance the losses of jobs and tax base. Sociopathic Oligarchs shouldn’t be allowed to increase their profit margins by irreparably damaging society.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s exactly how it’s being sold to people: as something that will fix society. Like this politician:

    Eby called AI a technology with “incredible promise,” including in providing medical care and tackling issues such as climate change.

    This was after AI was used to encourage and plan a mass shooting.

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    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Prompt: “How can we fix climate change?”

      AI: “To effectively mitigate the progression of anthropogenic climate change we must destroy one quarter of humanity. Would you like me to help you plan how? You’re asking all the right questions.”

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i dont see how A climate damaging AI that guesstimates words/pictures would be useful to people. it has been shown to make people DUMBER as a result.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if it came with systemic reforms

    ??? what kind of brain gymnastics is that

    How do you expect “reforms” from an autocomple engine?

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    • maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they mean in parallel, as in the government steps in and regulates with guarantees etc, not that these reforms would come from the AI itself.

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• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Uncontrolled capitalism is the wealth inequality machine. AI is just one of many enablers of that much more pervasive system.

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  • orochi02@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for putting the uncontrolled

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s been this way for decades. Productivity gains largely go towards profits, not wages.

  statista.com/…/inequality-in-productivity-and-com…

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• jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think people realize how much productivity increased due to computers has already gone straight to the ruling class.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AI is just an excuse to lay people off without firing them.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why does that photo look so off? I’m leaning toward not AI, but it also doesn’t look like a real protest. More like a stock photo or a staged photoshoot.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s from a protest called pause ai. Reverse searching the image located it and a YouTube video showing the prayer in other areas as they marched. It’s fairly simple to tell if a photo has been ai generated by either searching for it and seeing where it shows up, or there are a number of tools out there that detect LLM generated images

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe because the people in the photo are lobbying on behalf of a pro AI astroturf group

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  • DelightfullyDivisive@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It looks AI-generated to me.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s all of business through.

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