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by BillyTheMage 1190 days ago
My worst fears are that it makes Capitalism even worse. Capitalism already sucks the life out of everything. Now you're telling me we invented something to literally replace our creativity?

I fear that Capitalists will use it to extract exponentially more wealth from us with increased efficiency. Mass layoffs will increase competition for jobs. Labor will be much more alienated than it already is.

I fear that the Capitalists and the state will use AI to gain a level of control over people that can't be undone. They just have to run a simulation and be told by ChatCOP that ol' MountainMan is 99% likely to be a political dissident or terrorist or whatever they decide to frame thinking for yourself as.

I fear the Capitalists and the state will use it to create effective lies on a level they haven't been able to before. There is no truth anymore. They can generate any evidence for anything they want, and then they'll have another AI figure out which combination of words will make people believe it.

I fear that humans will be reduced even further to nothing but a fungible commodity to the capitalists.