so, I’m a bit more neutral about AI than most people on fedi
but
have you noticed the way it’s being pushed is kind of reminiscent of multilevel marketing schemes?
i mean, i know some people have accidentally created cults by talking to an LLM, but like, i mean the people pushing it like they stand to gain a lot of money if you adopt it. somehow. despite the tech largely losing massive amounts of money constantly
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The closest I can think of hand is rokos basilisk
Blitzscaling(1) is definitely a factor, but it's hardly a religion. I would describe it as regulatory arbitrage(2).
(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0007681319301478?via%3Dih
(2) https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/2567/
@ekg @bri_seven i think its morso:
fear of being left behind
the idealization of new technology within techbro culture
the companies that stand to benefit from ai bill it as a revolution, like the home computer revolution or the internet revolution, so in all likelihood a lot of people have some harebrained scheme of riding that wave and DO believe they stand to financially benefit from ai. they could be the next steve jobs, after all