A.I. will destroy the professional managerial class, the ones that keep voting for neo-liberals/neo-cons, and policies that support A.I., a bit of irony. Let them feel the pain of the working and poor classes, no more over-paid glorified babysitter jobs. Then, just maybe, we can all vote for real working class heroes, and reform.

The world already is that way though...

I’m not entirely sure of that. While corporate AI would certainly cause that, right now there are open weights models which can be run on a relatively affordable computer, and they are not that far behind. These models are able to democratize AI benefits rather than concentrate it.

Ha, that's pretty optimistic to think after all this that democracy and voting will still be part of the picture.

Yeah because if everyone is extremely cheap labour everyone will prosper?

I'll just ask chatgpt to do the research and vote for me

My business partner sometimes says some shit that while true, really stabs me in the heart.

His most recent one, "Ugh, there's too many parents with sickly kids here. Let's go to the VIP room." (At the airport)

Like, I'm one of those sickly kids.

Not necessarily, but everyone having access to cheap labor AND raw materials would ensure that.

Now I’m not going to pretend that AI is anywhere close to being a source of cheap labor. It really can’t do much without a human to assist it.

I admire your positivity. I do not share it though, because from what I have seen, because even if there are open weights, the one with the biggest datacenter will in the future hold the most intelligent and performance model.

Very similar to how even if storage space is very cheap today, large companies are holding all the data anyway.

AI will go the same way, and thus the megacorps will and in some extent already are owning not only our data, but our thoughts and the ability to modify them.

I mean, sponsored prompt injection is just the first thought modifying thing, imagine Google search sponsored hits, but instead it's a hyperconvincing AI response that subtly nudges you to a certain brand or way of thinking.

Absolutely terrifies me, especially with all the research Meta has done on how to manipulate people's mood and behaviour through which social media posts they are presented with