[itzjacki]

> They have nothing to do with AI.

Not inherently, but I think LLM services (and maybe other AI based stuff) are corruptible in a much more dangerous way than the things our socioeconomic system has corrupted so far.

Having companies pay to end up on the top of the search engine pile is one thing, but being able to weave commerciality into what are effectively conversations between vulnerable users and an entity they trust is a whole other level of terrible.

[BrenBarn]

I'm not so sure. We've commercialized medicine, housing, music, you name it. It is that process of corruption that is at issue here. If we had ended it 10 or 20 years ago we wouldn't have AI in the sense we have it now (and that would be a good thing).