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by aithrowawaycomm 500 days ago
There are other things about the AI industry that don't foster an "innovative environment":

- companies being allowed to spin fairy tales about their products' capabilities

- no real consequences to enabling scammers, copyright thieves, and misinformation factories

That stuff might be good for securing short-term investment - and it befits a society obsessed with cryptocurrency and sports gambling. But it doesn't seem good for building meaningfully smarter computers, just dumber computer users.