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Thats not how it works.

A better example would be "nuclear arms are already here, theres no going back"

Its not a capitalism thing, its an arms race thing.

Once one country starts making nukes you cant stop everyone from following suit to protect themselves.

Same goes for AI, once one country starts doing it, everyone else is gonna need to keep up so they dont lose the arms race.

Thing is: All of the examples still exist to various degrees.

And just like them AI is not going to vanish. Even more so than the others because AI is information. It's like trying to ban E2E: The genie is out of the bottle.

Asbestos is already in all the buildings, we can’t remove it. All the cars already require leaded gasoline, we can’t unlead it.

Fun fact I didn’t know until recently: if you have a classic car that requires leaded gasoline, they actually sell lead substitute that you mix with modern unleaded gas

Except child and slave labour was cheap and profitable. AI is neither cheap nor profitable.

Well to be fair to the giant pieces of shit in positions of power all over the states they are trying to bring child labor back as well

I'd bet good money it's the same people fighting to keep child marriage.

As much as I hate ai/llm's, here we're conflating new technologies with bad practices. This is a fallacy.

However much we hate llm's they definitely aren't going away anytime soon. You can't make laws or policies to make ideas/technologies go away.

It's comparing apples to oranges.

AI is software. We never stopped any software change before. Even heavily disliked and banned systems like crypto currency or vpns etc. still exist.

For the record I agree that AI needs more regulation and we could even force stop development of new models but LLMs will never be stopped in any meaningful way. You can take an open source model and run it today.

LLMs are here to stay until it's replaced by other technology.

I am more mad about people saying "it's improvng exponentially." The rate of improvement is falling, if anything.

Bunch of people said it because sci-fi made them believe so, and then everyone else went along with it for some reason.

Either the exponent is 1/2 or people are just having shared delusions.

Smoking indoors, child labor and slavery are all still here, just transformed and under a different coat of paint

Reminds me of when the stupid "Web 3.0" made up by blockchain freaks was supposed to be the future. Not every technology will be as widespread as the internet. The internet facilitates communication across the entire world and offers many advantages over phone, mail, and other forms of communication.

The use cases and advantages are clear, even if there was an overly eager hype cycle in the 90s. AI might have some uses, but a clear advantage has not actually been established yet, nor have the legal challenges been ironed out. Remember that the current iteration of AI would not have been possible without breaking tons of IP law, slurping up as much data as possible.

Such a dumb comparison.

I find it ironic that every top comment author seems to feel the urge to point out why it's actually different, but never question the point. I'm also sick of people telling me there's no turning back, like, yeah, you do you, bro. My life is great without social networks, which are not going anywhere I guess.

I feel like this comic is bait

None of those things were new technology. The assembly line didn't go away when people were angry about being laid off.

If you're talking about a specific product of AI ("art" for example), you might want to make that clearer. If you're talking about AI in general, you're treating this one thing like it's a reason to try turning back the clock.

The rational thing to do would be getting politically involved to get AI out of corporate ownership.

No, because you guys debating with actors who exist only in your head

Look, I get pissed off at AI and the AI industry every day. I definitely don't hate it as much as some people, but I'm not a fan either.

That said, it seems like there's not many comic artists out there who are able to actually articulate a coherent and rational criticism of AI. 90% of anti-AI comics end up being weak, strawman, or just generally sort of confused and vague. It's shocking to me because it seems like the problems and ways to criticize it are so plain. But comics like this and many others show how silly, reactionary, and unthinking a lot of these complaints are. There can be such thing as overreacting to a bad thing, there can be such thing as being confused about what's bad about a bad thing, etc. And in the case of this comic we have confusion about the nature of the problem and about its solution.

Ngl, it really irritates me seeing these artists think they've served up epic poignant AI ownage when they've really just demonstrated their own poor thinking ability.

https://futurism.com/data-centers-financial-bubble

The massive investments being made aren't economically viable.

This article assumes the person in the first panel wouldn't want the 3 panels to not still be the case.

"Leaded gasoline is already there, there's no going back."