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[–] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When it comes to the harms of these systems, that has a lot more to do with how these companies allow use of these tools...

The real harm is in these tools being pushed as learning tools, medical advice, companionship, etc. That they can even give medical advice seems like something Doctor's Unions should be suing over, I can't do it so why can the AI's? Using these in learning situations is demonstrably doing the opposite, inducing cognitive offloading and dependency. The companionship thing is probably the most dangerous facet, it's causing genuine psychosis in some people and honestly I feel that is by design.

None of this has to be for these tools to be used for coding. They represent a regulatory failure (complicity?) to constrain the dangerous uses.

Whereas I work with a small studio (<10 ppl) as the only programmer, asking Claude for bug hunting in regex's and shader code has saved my behind a few times.

I'd argue there is a responsible way to use these tools. Letting an agent run amok in my project folder is a hard no; I ask about specific issues, providing generalized code, and insert and test the code by hand to ensure reliability. The amount of code inserted by an AI is zero, but the code written by AI would be <1% of my codebase.

I might use the tools for coding but I advocate locally to keep them out of schools, and support all efforts to limit the harms. You can use a tool for a useful purpose (hammer for a nail), while still restricting that tool's usage (wielding a hammer to threaten people). So I disagree that using these tools is tantamount endorsing them for all purposes.

Frankly I've never paid any of them a dime, so I'm actually driving up their costs and hastening the decline 🤷

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Nah, too many friends of mine have been fired because of "AI". It's the mothern cathedral, what the powerful are using to make us dependent on them. I can argue than even when you didn't pay them a dime, you still gave them training material for the next model; furthering their goals ever so slightly.

I'm taking a stance that looks harsh on the outset, but it's basically the only one that doesn't further the massive theft of our body of work onto the hands of 5 oligarchs.