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highplainsdem

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6. GenAI models are almost all built on abuse - theft of intellectual property - and the dissemination and
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 12:05 PM
Nov 2024

marketing of those tools mostly encourages those harmful uses.

I doubt valid, non-harmful scientific and medical uses of genAI account for more than a tiny percentage of the money, energy and water it uses.

And the world isn't going to benefit much from a few scientific advances if the population is dumbed down, culture is stolen so corporate-owned mimicry is sold back to us, most jobs are lost, surveillance is worsened, and the environment is seriously harmed.

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