Excellent post by @molly0xfff on "AI". One of many gems:
"But I find one common thread among the things AI tools are particularly suited to doing: do we even want to be doing these things? If all you want out of a meeting is the AI-generated summary, maybe that meeting could've been an email. If you're using AI to write your emails, and your recipient is using AI to read them, could you maybe cut out the whole thing entirely?"
In general we need to realize that using "AI" is a moral decision.
Does the occasionally useful email summary really justify the wasted electricity, exploitation and theft?
At the same time, I get that passing the blame to everyday people to resist immoral technology can't replace corporate regulation and stronger legislation to stop exploitation and destruction of nature. But i fear that as long as the ethical dimension of technology remains hidden to so many, it will be an an uphill battle.
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