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3 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2: Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3: Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    26·
    5 hours ago

    The AI CEOs say shit like this as marketing. They want people to believe that

    1. Their product is very capable, so people are more likely to use it
    2. Their product is dangerous and “only they” know how to control it. They want to create regulations so that nobody else is allowed to make something “so dangerous” again.
    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Also:

      1. Their product, being both capable and dangerous, is a useful thing in which governments should definitely invest heavily to smash their enemies, paying consistent subscriptions to continue to keep their “arsenal”
      2. These governments must invest even more heavily than other governments, because the AI corps want to engineer the perception of mutually-assured AI destruction, with all sides paying them for the privilege
      3. Thus that, should the bubble pop, the government contracts will get them labeled TBTF and given that sweet hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout most ney as a gift for crashing the economy.
    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Ordinary Things makes a pretty good argument. It’s like someone giving you drugs at a party and saying something like “This shit will really fuck you up! It’s crazy! Here take it!”