[quotemstr]

> This is the opposite direction AI should be going.

There is no moral obligation, in any domain, to refuse to make a product that adults, with full informed consent, find useful and purchase. Who are you to say you know better than the market?

[perching_aix]

Market conditions are not a moral standard either, nor do they represent any cohesive one in particular. Not sure why you're contrasting their opinion with this, it's literally no better.

[rel_ic]

I disagree. I think you absolutely have a moral obligation to consider the impacts of your product.

> Who are you to say you know better than the market?

You really don't think the scientists & engineers making these tools know some things better than the market?

[gf000]

Markets only work in well-regulated environments, this has been known since forever (Adam Smith).

There is no meaningful competition in a marathon if I can drive you over with a car at the first 100m.

And thanks fkin God that we have regulations and meaningful laws and some asshole for-profit company can't just put drugs into food.. the "informed buyer" is bullshit. Humans are faulty, and there is a billion dollar industry meant to take advantage of said faults: it's called marketing.

[FridgeSeal]

This is a cute argument to make, which patently doesn’t work in the face of decades of evidence on the pernicious effects of social media _alone_, let alone the “turbo infantilising sycophancy machine”.

Pretending that everything’s totally fine and ok because “it’s adults” really just disregards reality.

[quotemstr]

I don't accept that social media is self-evidently bad. Not everyone lives inside the bubble in which its wrongness is obvious.