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It's just a freaking machine, unplug it lol
I think that they're seeing all the scary movie stuff start to come true - but missing the essential plot holes like that one: just unplug it.
People complain about AI slop - well, before AI slop there was lazy human slop, but lazy humans generally gave up before writing too many words or painting too much mess, or digital clone-stamping too many generic things... Truth is: if you put in 1/2 the effort of making something great without an AI tool into making something great with an AI tool, you can usually get something much better out in the end - if you're sincerely trying to use the tools well.
It's the people who don't know / don't care whether the result is slop or not who are putting in 1/10th (or less) the effort of making something great who are putting all the slop out there.
I'm not afraid of the machines taking over (yet), but I am afraid that the same explosion in copy-pasta document vomit that came with word processing 40-ish years ago is going to explode again into a docpocalypse with people using AI to drown each other in supposed "legal written" communications that are only even vaguely understandable using AI tools to read them.
I don't think anyone's ~~afraid of~~ in real danger of the machines taking over, but human stupidity in over-relying on them.
No, Anthropic and ClosedAI are talking about such scenario.
They're talking, they want other people to become more afraid, but is anyone actually afraid - or just latching on to this delusion of power to push their own agendae as if we all should be afraid?
You can’t just “unplug” a data center, and probably mirrored campuses too.
Yeah, you know, it's really a tossup between "one million malevolent GPUs with the all the constitution of a Ming dynasty vase" and "Sarah, from the county public works department, with a backhoe that hasn't been replaced since 1987"
I was being facetious