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Hey there!
I'm just curious as to what you guys think, recently ChatGPT got an upgrade (GPT4) where it can recognize the content of an image plus some other things. Midjourney also got an INSANE upgrade and can create images that look completely real. I'll show an example below that totally fooled me before.
There was a guy that used GPT to create a plan to turn 100 dollars into more money:
https://www.marketbeat.com/articles/a-guy-is-using-chatgpt-to-turn-100-into-a-business-making-as-much-money-as-possible-here-are-the-first-4-steps-the-ai-chatbot-gave-him-2023-03-21/
- Microsoft just fired their whole AI ethics team.
- it is estimated that 80% of US jobs will be affected by this technology.
There's a lot to be said about AI, good or bad, so what do you think? I'd love to see your thoughts in the comments below :)
Reminder, this image is not a photo! This is an AI-generated image. I saved it because I thought it was funny without realizing it wasn't real. I just learned it was generated!
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Rowen
I would be a lot more supportive of AI if it wasn't business bros with little to no business ethics who're "pioneering" it.
Tons of art has been stolen to be fed into the programs, none of which was paid for or credited. Besides the obvious violation of intellectual property, these business bros have stepped on and grounded their heels into artists for their own personal gain.
It becomes when worse when now these companies are making AI apps and marketing with lewd connotations and themes, "Make your dream girl" "see what's under her shirt" "see her naked" usually marketed on apps and websites easily accessible to minors.
Along with the art generators comes the AI girlfriend apps. Which are honestly terrifying. Their marketing is sexualized as well, hinting at salacious conversions you can have, risque photos it can send you, so on. Usually these features are locked behind a paywall, which is a slight remedy but additionally scummy.
I think if continuing to go unchecked it can have a negative affect on adolescents, especially all the Ipad kids who will be the ones growing up with this technology at the forefront of the internet (possibly). A tech market based around sexualizing and degrading woman, even pushing the idea of an inherit servitude that woman are supposed to play, could lead to rampant sexism. Along with that could be a whole new threshold of literally unobtainable body standards and insecurities in girls.
In such a eurocentric age of the internet as well, an AI fed the standards, culture, humor, and thought processes the dominant culture holds today could very well reinforce those standards. As more and more companies experiment with integrate AI into their businesses, it's grim thinking of the implications that could hold. Cosmetics, clothing, medical care facilities, so on and so forth.
However, It isn't all bad. Technology does not have implicit biases when created. It could be fed data with a team of people to reduce biases and give an ethical overview to assure quality of the AI. A well made and well nourished AI could have many positive implications. It could ease the jobs of many workers, reduce errors in tasks and projects that require mathematics, streamline city planning and reduce carbon emissions, make work and day to day tasks easier for people with disabilities, I could keep going on.
Technology is wonderful, and is what has gotten humanity to the age we're in now. What's important is making sure its working for the masses, not just the few. AI has become popular recently because an influx of business interest in it. From big tech companies, companies that want to reduce how many workers they have to pay, or just Harvard grads with daddies money. These people don't care for ethical business practices, they care about making fat stacks. Take it out of their hands and put it into the peoples, it could become very useful for everyone.
No notes on anything, I agree completely. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts so well!
I am overwhelmed with how fast it all seems to be going, especially as I'm getting older and time is also just going by faster (in my perception) naturally.
I wouldn't be so worried if I knew that nearly every single innovation in this field isn't made to further humanity or making everyone live better lives, but instead to make money. It's ALWAYS about money, which as you aptly said, means furthering the power of the dominant culture. Sexism sells, erasing class struggle (or co-opting it) sells, and erasing the existence of marginalization (or pretending to fight it) sells.
This kind of innovation could really change how we approach nearly all white collar jobs. It's sad we see this as "taking" our livelihood when it should be our ticket to retire and never work again. I see this with robotic automation as well, as this should mean the worker no longer has to provide their labor. I know the mechanics of how this could be done is over my head, but I still believe it's possible if we could change the power to the people who are directly affected(aka the working class). So many things can be and are automated now, and people deserve all the leisure such a thing can provide! Remember that image of people theorizing the average workweek would shrink with time? I even think about how in such a world, automation could be a government-funded industry, attempting to automate as many jobs as they could to reach a point where there's as little jobs needed to hold up society as possible.
I am reluctantly positive about all of this, because I suppose I am dreaming of the moment when we achieve equity within this field, and everyone gets a fair share to benefit from this. I would love to see this power in our hands where we could use AI to take care of buying our groceries, help us cook and prepare our meals, help us monitor the well being of our plants and pets, keep our homes clean, help us find movies and tv shows to watch, help us learn new skills and hobbies to enjoy in all the spare time we're given, and just so much more. Even we could see the use of AI to assist in educating someone about when, where, and how they can vote in their local elections, perhaps even making a way a person could vote in their own home in a way that can't be interfered with. I would love for this to be a way to help educate people about their voting power and help them connect, be involved with their local community. The idea of a digital assistant that could fully understand what you want and be fully capable to carry such out, would probably be the best example of what I mean.
I'm most excited about what this means for accessibility options. From a program that can use TTS to describe an image turning soon into a headset that could describe everything around a person who is visually impaired. We could see subtitles with perfect accuracy using augmented reality glasses, to every sound being made, for people with hearing impairment. Robotics using these abilities to "see" and "hear" the world around it can revolutionize accessibility. Even just the idea of letting the simulation of a human connection and conversation doesn't worry me if it can be under enough regulation to not enable the most deranged of fantasies and desires, and instead prepare someone for an actual conversation and human interaction. It sounds morbid, but I wouldn't mind if someone made a way to simulate talking to me in my death, as an interactive tombstone. But of course I can't trust there to be any way to do that at this point, because I know there's no regulation to how it would be used, and no way to prove informed consent to all the possibilities such a thing could be. But I do think about how something like that could be so educational to people years later, not just for my great*50 grandchildren but as a way to document important figures for those in the distant future. I see a lot of possibilities that could change the world, but I worry it's just going to become something that rips humans further apart from each other, gives the ruling class more power, increase the surveillance we're under, and make even more depraved pornographic content. Is this just going to exacerbate our current issues? Will it all be rejected out of a very real fear of such things? This stuff is dancing on a razor's edge of good and bad.
I wish I could be ecstatic, but more often I find myself worried.
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