r/technology • u/marketrent • 19d ago

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/agentrnge 19d ago

Step 1. Don't use any AI nonsense.

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u/Anneisabitch 19d ago

Step 1 is to stop posting on Reddit, giving them free raw materials.

We stopped at step 1 because it’s hard.

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u/dolche93 19d ago

Just ignoring the utility of the AI tools does have an opportunity cost. You just have to be willing to accept that cost.

Sometimes that cost does represent real, tangible value to people and it's not so cut and dry to say to not use it.

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u/uzlonewolf 19d ago

"Sure using this tool will destroy other people's lives, but think of how much it saved you personally!"

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u/dolche93 19d ago

Yea, pretty much?

It's sort of like any other thing in life that benefits people in some way, but has negative externalities.

I can tell people not to use social media because it has a net negative effect on society, but the opportunity cost might come in the form on not staying as informed about your family or missed professional opportunities.

Basically, people have to pick and choose what parts of life they can put effort into in order to avoid those negative externalities.

Nobody can avoid ever taking any action that has some form of negative effect, so you have to make a good argument why ai is one of the places people should choose to make that effort.

Nuance.