On 16 April 2024, the AGImageddon cult suffered a terrible blow. Now we must seize the initiative and expunge this evil ideology from all aspects of society. We may have won the battle, but we have not yet won the war.
The endgame for these AI companies isn't "unleashing human creativity". It's Content-as-a-Service. Pay up and we'll deliver a constant stream of homogenized, brand-safe, instantly-forgettable slop - it's the business model of modern streaming services taken to the extreme. Quality doesn't matter when you can drown out everyone else with quantity; buy regulations that only your Big Tech cronies can afford to comply with; and ban open source competitors under the guise of "AI Safety".
AGImageddon is a propaganda tool, plain and simple.
"AGI Safety" is used to bludgeon competitors to death with onerous, pointless regulations that only the Big Boys can afford to comply with.
Meanwhile the public is duped into believing that the existential risk is so great that the whole business had best be left to the "experts".
Although building a machine God is antithetical to most religions, their claims are just technical enough to fly under the radar.
Take for example, the many-worlds theory. Originally a hypothetical concept from quantum physics, it's been used to justify all sorts of outlandish concepts. Like Roko's Basilisk, an AI that will torture a simulated version of you forever if you don't build it! This is obviously sidestepped by normal human beings agreeing to not build the torture box, but the addition of multiverses makes it just plausible enough to be acceptable.
@gay_ornithischians Yeah exactly, it makes no sense but it's dressed up in just enough science to make it seem like "superintelligence" is a real problem.
You're not stealing from scientists. The journals are, and unlike EVERY OTHER PLATFORM don't give a penny back to "creators". Yes, that includes #openaccess journals. Piracy lets us demand reform.