@jnkrtech
I do agree that today's AI is mostly being built with disruption of labor markets as the explicit goal ("all economically valuable work" and such). And that does seem pretty yikes!
But I think even if that wasn't the case, there'd be reason to be concerned about biggo shifts as a result of people's use of these technologies.

@jnkrtech I somewhat agree, tho I think that things can actually destabilize/remake societies without it always being very on purpose. I think that even small AI models may have this effect, tho not in the way that the AGI-pursuers might envision. Making more of the world "machine readable" changes our capacity for sensing/measuring and decisionmaking in ways that I think could be pretty profound. Even with pre-transformer architectures.

@fromjason Hm! I would love to better understand how this actually plays out empirically, because some describe these actions as placating/momentum-robbing while others describe them as foundational and momentum-building. Perhaps not everyone is impacted in the same way. I think it would be good to actually know how this works if we are taking our movement-building seriously.
Do you have any resources that you trust on this topic?

@FediTips @ai6yr @jeridansky @firefly If people use alt text, then the filters also apply, I’ve found, but that requires people using effective alt text…