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the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail
an unknown perpetrator fired 13 shots into the home of local Democratic councilman Ron Gibson
Both incidents were frightening examples of abhorrent, politically motivated violence.
Cry harder, mainstream media. The ruling class have exercised unlimited violence, exploitation and coercion against the working class for quite long enough, I think the tide turning is quite overdue.
Also this bit
These costs could be ignored, or even accepted, if there was a clear idea of how precisely AI would streamline and improve the workplace
How about just improving life in general.
Work is not life.
Jobs are not life.
But even if it actually was perfect and actually intelligent and made work "easier" and more effixient, every single worked knows the end result will just be cutting jobs and making people work more.
If it makes every worker2x more efficient, its not going to be "oh, now you can all work 4 hours with your 2x output." Its going to be "half of you are fired and the rest of you work the same amount."
I wouldn't be annoyed as much if it wasn't being forced. I do 3d modeling for 3d printing. Fusion 360 recently added an ai assistant. I'd be happy with it but it's forced into a panel to the right of where object properties pops up. So mousing over to properties brings up the AI pop up if you aren't extremely careful.
I'm sure the manager of the AI feature loves that they can show metrics that everyone is bringing up the AI pop up constantly. They don't care that it's pissing everyone off because they get their bonus not on pissing off customers but that their metrics look great.
So instead of being "Wow! This AI helped me fix a problem faster than searching Google." It's, "Freaking AI pop up in my way again!"
And forced is the right word.
They start with an AI button.
When no one uses the AI button they throw a constant notification, telling you the button is there.
Then when you ignore that, they start auto opening it and shit.
Like, just fucking fuck off already AI.
It's slop clippy. Like clippy but 10% of tips are wrong
I'm curious, is it actually building stuff or does it just explain things and answer questions?
It answers questions.
At the doctors office she said "do you consent to me recording our conversation for note taking, it will be deleted after your visit...." When? A day later....AI is using medical visits to learn your voice! WTF!
I asked my doctor a question, he thinks for a second, says I'll be right back. Minute later he comes back with a printout of a AI summary and starts reading it to me. We're so cooked.
Seriously? Wow incredible. What area is that from? Mine was at a Seattle hospital for small people, which you can deduce the actual name from.
My brother in law is a doctor and he relies on note dictation. It's actually a really important thing in modern medical care. Rather than moving over to a computer (or using the shitty iPad/tablet on-screen keyboard), he can speak the notes into a voice recognition tool that was made for medical transcription/notes.
This is a really good use of AI. It's not a bad thing, damnit!
Also, for reference, training this kind of AI doesn't require enormous data centers worth of computers. It's 2017 AI technology that's been recently upgraded with 2022-ish tech. It still sends the audio to a private company's servers, but they have agreements that legally bind the provider to protect the privacy of the patient (they can be sued for HIPAA violations if they fail to protect the data... If they even retain any which I doubt).
The thing you are missing is the part where my voice is sent to a computer farm where it can be correlated to other databases and packaged for sale without my knowledge or agreement.
If it was simply a computer at the doc's office, that would be great. But its not. It's probably at Google and totally hate google. Google is evil. Open AI is evil, Microsoft and nvidia are evil. There's no if end or butts, its a privacy violation.
I actually know where the voice data goes! Amazon servers... that were specifically sequestered for HIPAA stuff (LOL).
But no: It actually can't be repackaged and sold to a 3rd party. Not without your consent, anyway. That would be a violation of HIPAA.
What they can do is anonymize the data and aggregate it that way. But the HIPAA rules say that it can't be possible to tie it back to individuals. This causes problems with people who have super rare illnesses but that's a different issue altogether.
Having said that, there are companies that have be caught red handed doing exactly what you describe. They were fined and some don't exist anymore because the fines were either too much or hospitals and doctors offices stopped using them due to lack of trust.
At my house I can go unplug my AI computer. I have full control of what it does or doesn't do. At the doc's office, the doc has no clue what the third party does or doesn't do with my data. In fact he didn't even say "your voice gets sent to Amazon" I would have flat out rejected the suggestion right there. He said its a recording for my dictating software. That sounds very much old school local speech to text. And the recording would be deleted immediately after the text transcription which doesn't sound like "it will be sent to Amazon and I got no clue if they actually delete anything or teach their bots to know who you are "annonimously" ".
Seriously, if you think about what AI is, it is terrifying! Its like getting any word and thought and noise you meticulously recorded and studied for meaning such that anyone can filter for you. Like give me all people who are taller than me and think I'm a fool and either ruin their lives silently or elimate them politically or businesseswise. Crazy bad.
the doc has no clue what the third party does or doesn’t do with my data
The doc would have no clue what his local IT staff do with his data, either. Furthermore, for all you know, the doctor isn't deleting the things they record. In all of these scenarios, it's 100% out of your control. Even if it's local. Because it's not your hardware and it's not your business (as in, you don't own the doctor's office/hospital).
What you're complaining about is contract law. You obviously don't trust it. That has nothing to do with your voice being sent to servers in an Amazon data center. The 3rd party transcription service provider is under contract not to share your data and so is Amazon. Just like the doctor's office is required by law not to share your data without your consent (which I guarantee you gave them permission for when you did your paperwork at that office).
Now let me take a step back for a second and ask a more serious question: Why do you care? I mean, I can think of several reasons why someone could care about theirs and their doctor's voices being recorded but why do you, specifically care? What's the "this is a problem" scenario you're worried about?
Because Ai datacenters is what will watch every single human being. Kind of hard to like that.
Big tech is not spending billions so you can have chat gpt. And they know they wont reach general intelligence. This is the infrastructure for dystopia.
I don't know, somehow "hate" just doesn't feel like a strong enough word ...
Hans?