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by bcjdjsndon 2 days ago
No longer well anybody be wasting their lives doing data entry. That absolutely hellish job is practically dead now. And there are thousands of low hanging fruit type cases AI fixes. Ai is the new digital dogsbody. You might not think that's useful but the rest of the world does.

Just like cars, AI will kill some of us, maybe thousands every year. But you won't see it disappear with that much genuine benefit currently netting off the harm.

I bet in the future, for both cars and llms, a new and safer tech will make come and make them obsolete and we will wonder why we tolerated such a dangerous thing

2 comments

>> Same reason road vehicles haven't been banned despite killing hundreds of thousands every single year for over a century

Whut? People and companies are always being sued and punished for injuring or killing others with cars or by any other means. Do you understand the difference between banning a tool and prosecuting those who cause damage by abusing some tool? BTW, LLMs don't understand that difference.

> Just like cars, AI will kill some of us, maybe thousands every year.

How merciful of you, it's so reassuring, AI will kill me only sometimes and only a limited number of times - sounds like a good deal in exchange for getting rid of "the absolutely hellish job of data entry".

> Whut? People and companies are always being sued and punished for injuring or killing others with cars or by any other means.

I said ban

> Do you understand the difference between banning a tool and prosecuting those who cause damage by abusing some tool?

Yes but you dont

Are you feeling alright?