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Safir Ahmed's avatar

Unlike most consumer products which must go through rigorous testing and reports to prove they're safe, AI chatbots are tested on all of us in real time, because Meta, Google, OpenAI, et al. are rushing to release untested chatbots in a race against each other to corner the market.

Never has such a widely-used consumer product been totally unregulated. Meanwhile, our former "public servants" like Kyrsten Sinema, Norm Coleman, and others serve as hucksters, seeking a bit of the cash for themselves from their corporate lords.

Pox on both their houses.

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BookWench's avatar

This AI stuff is creepy!

I have read of more than one urging users to kill themselves, we know they just make stuff up, and the other day, one was mired in deep depression.

What could go wrong?

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Bubba's avatar

Yeah social media I’m sure received a ton of scrutiny before making 12yo girls kill themselves. Nothing new here at all

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kellyjohnston's avatar

I really wish we could institute a lifetime lobby ban for anyone elected to Congress (it's probably unconstitutional, and besides, they will find enough loopholes, as many do, to avoid registering under existing law). From my experience, they don't make the best lobbyists; former staff are the real experts on issues like this.

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One After 909's avatar

Freddie DeBoer makes the point that the current Market bubble is due to AI and if AI can’t solve it’s hallucinating and proves to be a bust, there could be a deep recession as a result.

These current and former lawmakers portfolios should be monitored for when they start to sell.

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Bebe Schroer's avatar

Here in Memphis we can't stop xAI from polluting the air, hogging the power grid or sucking the aquifer dry. Musk spreads money around like he's planting soy beans and cotton, and many are lined up willing to take it.

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James Schwartz's avatar

AI shouldn’t need special protections and I’m a little nervous these huge data centers are going to heat up our rivers and lakes. They need to figure out how to cool these centers without destroying our natural resources.

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Beyond Spin's avatar

Sadly, the foxes are in charge of the hen house. So, any meaningful legislation to address this corruption will never be proposed let alone make it to the floor for a vote. Such legislation could and should include, at least, a two year non-compete period where no former Congress person (or member of the administration) can lobby the government in any capacity.

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cjonsson1's avatar

Beyond Spin, I completely agree.

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Last One's avatar

A possible silver lining that Vanessa Wingardh has mentioned is that given the rate of adoption of AI, within a year or two 90% of the content on the Internet will be AI generated. So AI machines will be training themselves on the hallucinations of other AI machines. I don’t know if the Internet will survive this crash, but perhaps the careers of these lobbyists will be short lived.

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BookWench's avatar

It's so nice that our former Congress Critters were able to find new jobs, isn't it?

God forbid they ever do any actual work.

Thanks for always following the money.

(And why do I have to be reauthenticated, after following an email link here?)

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