Just as importantly: we have to stop amplifying tech bosses’ chosen narratives about their products’ destructive potential, because this helps them raise more money and do more terrible things. Bernie Sanders needs to stop insisting that the US government should own 50% of the money-losingest corporations the world has ever seen and start talking about how they will not get a government bailout when their investment bubble bursts.
no, its being used for SURVEILLANCE mostly, since commercially no one is buying it so. they are peddling it for government use.
The perfect time to be a fascist government would be if you could process unbelievable amounts of surveillance data with cold calculating detachment while also heavily undermining worker power.
But what kind of disruptive technology could do all that…
a few routers and an automatic ai snitch
Chatgpt alone has 50 million paying users.
That they make money on? I mean more than the costs directly associated with those customers? Doubt it
I’m SaaS solutioning / sales and yeah, the shit is flying off the shelves at the enterprise level. AI is powerful and here to stay, what we have to worry about is HOW it’s being used. We desperately need regulation in the space especially as it relates to lending, insurance, and healthcare
Yeah it’s a loss leader right now, but what about when OpenAI folds and customers have to start paying the real costs?
Also it’s clearly being deployed in a way pernicious to workers and the environment, so like… evil. But then people still use AWS so wtf do I know