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An appeal to companies doing AI


It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

What I do is somewhat niche, so even if the AI hype crowd is correct, I strongly suspect society will already be totally fucked due to worker displacement and social unrest long before they get to my specialty. As someone who grew up in poverty and only accessed media through online piracy, I don’t particularly care about the impact on intellectual property laws in the abstract way that corporations understand them. Just combine a local language model that builds a psychological profile on its victim with self-propagating ransomware and you’ve got a nightmarish scenario that no amount of “identity protection” or corporate anti-phishing training will ever mitigate.

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