“AI businesses are putting profits over sanity and safety”.
Remove “AI” from that sentence and you’ll see that’s just more normal business practices that have been going on for decades.
The real question is: what profit? It’s a sink hole in a hope to maximize reach
This is a ball and cup game designed to create cashflow where there is none. The ‘profit’ is the assets, dividends and capital gains the shareholder class will syphon out before the bubble bursts.
What profits?
Now what does that tell us about the sanity and safety?
And it’s not even working. Not one of the AI companies is profitable. So they’re putting the hope for profits some time in the future over sanity and safety.
“Fuck me Sam, I don’t have anymore ideas on how to turn a profit. We’ve tried everything. How about we just give the AI its own infrastructure and bank account with the instructions ‘make money’ and see what it does? I know that safety guy advised against it before, but he no long works here. I mean if it becomes a singularity event, at least it’s our singularity event to control”
Steve Burke (of GN) described the absurdity pretty well, within the context of the currently uncertain Nvidia and OpenAI deal:
Nvidia offered OpenAI $100B in investment, money that it didn’t have, as long as OpenAI gave that money back to Nvidia to lease GPUs that haven’t been made, to then put in data centres that haven’t been constructed, which will be powered by electricity that hasn’t come online, to then rent to users who haven’t subscribed, to provide them features that haven’t come to fruition.
In a way this is what’s most scary. Because they are desperate. Any safety concerns will be damned and they are all racing to be the first who makes a breakthrough in the direction of AGI.
If we ever get there, this is not the way it should be done. I hope they remember that we need to have a world where they can spend their money.
That’s a talk ask for desperate people to consider.
What about all the user data they sell to third parties? I’d be interested in knowing how that contributes to this
I sure hope they secretly sabotage on their way out to protect society
After $1T poured into global warming, why can’t AI replace them ?
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“They are putting profits over sanity and safety”
Soooooooo, just like every other business in the history of capitolism?
There’s a huge list of eye rolls here but also…what profits?
So they only now figured out that all Corporations and their sick shareholders are shit evil and doesn’t care about anything else than profits ?! Wtf do they think activists are doing ?
Imagine being a Demis Hasabi, or similar cunt, voluntarily giving/developing AI technology - the most extreme power in human history - to the most evil corporation in human history, run and owned by the most evil people in the world, placed in the most evil lying empire of all times ! Wow - that is a great idea… cough…
Well, better late than never I guess. Even for normal naive, dumb slow-thinking AI researchers. Let’s hope they start waking up from their business/market psychosis, and do some open source work - real mutually beneficial work - for us all instead of boosting the psychopath Oligarchy that runs our little world.
They are leaving because they are getting much better offers elsewhere.
or they see that things will collapse soon enough and are bailing like rats leaving a sinking ship
Oh thank heavens some people still have ethics.
if they had ethics they would have left a long time ago.
Talents leave
Tell me a “journalist” has no concept of mass nouns without using those words.
Publicly traded companies are legally required to put profits over sanity, safety, and everything else. It’s a truly insane system we’ve put together for ourselves.
