> Like the boring fence-sitter I am, I think it will have a mix of positive and negative effects.
Definitely the correct way to think about AI, but "nuanced and reasonable" is not the way of internet debates, sadly.
If the majority of the positive effects of AI are privatized and captured by people who are already wealthy, and the majority of the negative effects are socialized and felt by the poor, then I still think the correct position for most people is to be strongly against AI
Technology is neither good nor bag; nor is it neutral. If you can't think of any reasons people may be critical of AI, given the amount of layoffs, then you're not very imaginative or informed.
kazinator•56m ago
Yes, and that's half the switcheroo.
The other half is that prior to 2023, tech corporations purported to be dead against stealing copyrighted material.
Liberals are embracing IP because their friends are artists whom they see as victimized, and because they see AI companies declare that rapaciously consuming petabytes of copyrighted material and regurgitating it in massaged from is "fair use".
Liberals are against IP when it's used as a tool of multinational corporations to oppress the Little Guy.
Liberals are pro IP when excuses that amount to a disregard of IP are used to rob Little Guy creators.
Ultimately, everyone is conservative in politics in that sense of the word that they want everything to conform to their views and then stay that way.
dweinus•32m ago