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‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff

by Manheim on 5/29/23, 6:13 AM with 17 comments

• by tyingq on 5/29/23, 11:39 AM

  The problem for Google seems hard to me. They scrape original content then find ways to present the best parts of it without sending you to the content creators site.

  Now they will have a harder time finding human generated content. So AI will start training itself on AI generated data. Which sounds like a loop that leads downward in quality.

• by WeylandYutani on 5/29/23, 8:13 AM

  America may give Silicon valley a blank check to do whatever they want but China keeps a tight control and the EU loves to bully them with regulations. The State always wins.

  The Achilles heel is that nobody actually fucking LIKES these "tech barons" and nobody would vote for them if they ran for office. He's right that they are removed from the real world. Even a C level politician would demolish them in town hall meeting.

• by Havoc on 5/29/23, 8:19 AM

  Never heard of this Rushkoff guy, but he seems not 100% OK himself. Very weird tone throughout. e.g.

  >They’re torturing themselves now, which is kind of fun to see.

• by jeffrallen on 5/29/23, 7:25 AM

  > They’re afraid the AIs are going to be as mean to them as they’ve been to us.

  This is gold!

  But it's also curious coming from a journalist who played cheerleader for them for so many years: are journalists also afraid that AI will propagandize us better than journalists managed to?