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by pixl97 41 days ago
It's kind of funny watching the behavior on the forum of different groups with different beliefs.

"AI can't do anything harmful at all, kick this shit up to 11. It's all marketing, bla bla"

and

"My grandma gave away all her money to AI bots and is now starving in the street. My uncle murdered his wife and is trying to get married to GPT-4o. He thinks they are going to elope to a data center on a tropical island and live happily ever after".

I think the 'AI can do no harm, it's marketing" people are really disconnected from reality and that any other product that behaved in the same manner would have been banned in most places.

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Related: https://youtu.be/Ykvf3MunGf8?si=UEIMRdrMWUFF6V8Q

AI chatbots have caused real harm. It has tragically convinced and encouraged a number of people to commit suicide, to say nothing about scams. It is having a real effect on the social fabric of our society.

I don't understand what point the people who blame the dangers of AI on marketing.

The sociocultural dangers weren't the danger they were referring too, Claude Mythos was purported to be so powerful that if released to the public it would result in all software being 0-dayed and so they could only give select important groups access. Curl's analysis said ehh, it didn't really seem that much better.

Now people who are getting negatively affected because they think AI is more real and more intelligent than it actually is and get tricked by it, well that is dangerous but for different reasons.