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Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” (musictech.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But the people with the money for the hardware are the ones training it to put more money in their pockets. That's mostly what it's being trained to do: make rich people richer.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This completely ignores all the endless (open) academic work going on in the AI space. Loads of universities have AI data centers now and are doing great research that is being published out in the open for anyone to use and duplicate.

    I've downloaded several academic models and all commercial models and AI tools are based on all that public research.

    I run AI models locally on my PC and you can too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That is entirely true and one of my favorite things about it. I just wish there was a way to nurture more of that and less of the, "Hi, I'm Alvin and my job is to make your Fortune-500 company even more profitable...the key is to pay people less!" type of AI.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But you can make this argument for anything that is used to make rich people richer. Even something as basic as pen and paper is used everyday to make rich people richer.

    Why attack the technology if its the rich people you are against and not the technology itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's not even the people; it's their actions. If we could figure out how to regulate its use so its profit-generation capacity doesn't build on itself exponentially at the expense of the fair treatment of others and instead actively proliferate the models that help people, I'm all for it, for the record.

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