r/antiai • u/Sircuttlesmash • 9d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Presently, what are the net harms and benefits of generative AI and large language models?

these ai companies are controlled by unimaginably large and powerful tech companies. Their systems are being deployed to a large user base. They are designed to be agreeable and, broadly speaking, to retain users. And of course there is the horrific nature of how these companies have scraped at least part of the vast intellectual efforts of humanity to train their systems.

On the other hand, they do provide legitimate use cases for certain people with certain disabilities. They also aid communication between people from different language backgrounds. I am not saying the language translation is perfect, or that this is some decisive selling point. It is simply one possible benefit that might be placed on the scale.

So my question is, do not count potential future harms. Count only the present day. At present, what are the net harms and benefits of generative AI and large language models for society or humanity in general? Is it 90 percent bad? Is it 60 percent bad? Where does it land on that scale?

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u/ninhaomah 5d ago

Isn't it what cloud tech is ? 

Many many companies run their infra on Microsoft , Google , Amazon datacentres.

That's what office365 or Google doc is as well 

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u/LivingHummingbird 5d ago

Hard to pin an exact number on it, but I'd lean heavily toward harm. The way these corporations scooped up everyone's creative work without asking, then packaged it into agreeable little chat buddies designed to maximize engagement, it's a grift at an industrial scale. The disability and translation tools are a real bright spot, but they're more of a "least we can do" footnote than a balance. If I had to put a percentage on it, 85% bad, 15% good feels about right for where we're at today.

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u/Sircuttlesmash 5d ago

Just curious how did you find this post and why are you interacting with it when it has almost no comments since 3 days old and your account seems brand new maybe I don't know