making programming about writing code is like making photography about film development and darkroom printing. you spent years perfecting those skills and learning about things like effects of different chemicals and dodging and burning amd then the digital camera comes along. and you’d be like “anyone can make a picture now, they edit them on a computer, photographer as a profession is dead”. it’s pathetic.

i object to your use of the word “either”. that gives him too much credibility.

my point was that the news will happily push a story like the “rogue AI” bullshit, since it is in the best interest of the people who own the media companies, but will completely ignore or actively suppress stories that are afainst their interests…

“regulation bad” appears to be just an american thing. everyone else is doing it… but it takes time and is not necessarily done well.

these extreme voices get more head space online because that’s the only thing that can get any meaningful attention nowadays. you won’t see the vast majority of people stuck at “well, some of the things it does are kind of impressive but the practical results are not there for us, i’m not sure why and i don’t understand the impact and background entirely so i just don’t know”. you’ll only ever hear from people that are either “AI evangelists” and are backed up by a huge amount of marketing money and propped by the algorithm or from the people who sound like they are about to fire bomb a data center.

there are many people who are much more sober about these things. look at this video for an example: https://youtu.be/xwXM2pHj0g4

IMO the real problem is that both regulation and the so called “free market” are susceptible to being taken over by players that just don’t play fair. we all know that LLMs and many other tech “improvements” would not be viable if they had to play by the same rules as everyone else (e.g. source training data, resources and energy in a moral way and charge a fair price for the actual measured contribution they provide). but that’s kind of their game, right? they find a way to be more efficient… not necessarily by improving a product but sometimes simply by finding a hole in the rules. and then they haul in the money and use it to put out any competition and poke more holes in the rules.

i see you don’t know how the news works recently…

the problem is that the same people who buy vpn services are the people who care that parties like he supports don’t get to power… so when they learn that their money (that they paid for the vpn) directly helped to pay for that donation (via the company that made him rich) they are understendably pissed.

edit: this guy below said it much better than me https://lemmy.world/post/51539700/25684523