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Bernie Sanders proposes bill to give the public a 50% stake in AI companies (mashable.com)
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[–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Yeah that’s what I read here, acquisition not share purchase.

As someone who has never used AI, another thing that springs to mind; the possibility that under good governance and regulation, AI services might become more trusted and perform better.

I’m trying to find flaw with this proposal, given what’s in front of us with AI, as someone who doesn’t know a lot about using it but sees everyday the problems bad regulation and intention causes with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    Well.....

    Very broadly speaking, yes, having a much more direct regulation of how you can use 'AI', and how you can 'generate' it, for lack of a better term...

    Yeah. AI isn't totally useless. It can do a lot of very neat and useful things.

    But, if used improperly, it can literally destroy the world's software systems.

    Just in the last 24-48 hours, Meta put an AI in charge of its customer support for Instagram.

    People figured out that you can just use a VPN to set your IP to the approximate location of any Instagram account, tell it 'oh i lost my email, heres my new one, can you send me a password reset email?'... and it would just do it.

    The AI got wired in to the backend of Instagram's security systems... and then used them to bypass them, because it wss asked to, nicely.

    You'd have to have actual experts, not in AI, but in software engineering, systems architecture, experienced full stack senior devs, make up like a council of mandatory safety practices, things that LLMs should never be allowed to be plugged in to.

    The... original idea of like a decade ago, was that the people developing this ... would do that, they'd self regulate.

    Then they decided they'd rather be trillionaires.

    And also, a whole lot of people are the boat you're in, not understanding much about AI... but they're also delusional narcissists who are highly susceptibls to being upsold by people they view as more successful than them.

    So those people just hear 'Use AI or be left behind!' and then layoff half the company to afford some kind of not even half baked AI implementation... and the latest numbers are something like 90-95% of firms that adopted AI in the last 12 or 18 months saw 0 or negative overall productivity gain.

    ... because this shit is not actually magic.

    So yeah, yeah, formal regulation, at a very direct snd engaged level... I mean like AI can easily do more monetary damage than a nuclear warhead going off in a major city, if used improperly, by dumb hairless monkeys that want an easy button instead of any actual work associated with running anything.

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