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by nercury 770 days ago
Corporate prioritization is the ultimate cookie cutter, doomed to produce the most generic thing possible.
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The already existing and extremely powerful paperclip maximizers.
Indeed, modern public corporations are already functionally equivalent to AGIs in many ways, with a legal obligation to maximize profit by any means.

Not sure why this is not a more common point in AI doomsaying discussions.

Especially in this modern era of metrics and data-driven design[0]. It's just design by committee at scale.

[0] Why you would go hard on data-driven design in a creative field instead of trusting the instincts of creators I will never know.