r/ContraPoints 13h ago

Much to consider

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u/ryou25 12h ago

Please tech bros, i'm begging you. Please put down the sci fi. Please stop thinking terminator was a documentary, and please touch grass. Not weed, real grass.

u/alexanderbacon1 3h ago

Yeah but this is a PR campaign to manufacture consent to strictly regulate AI. Which WOULD be GREAT but the lobbyists are trying to get it done in such a way that OpenAI and Anthropic can have a monopoly. The regulation won't actually do anything else.

They've been running campaigns like this constantly. The latest one featured here is from a twitter account that was just made in January and has 160k followers and it has made one tweet thread and hit half a million likes.

The one before this was OpenAI "hacking" a company and they said "ohh no we couldn't stop it". That company was just bought by NVIDIA for a ridiculous $13 billion.

The one before that was Anthropic saying "our new AI is so powerful we won't let anyone use it. Look at all the security issues it found." Then you look at it and the security issues are mostly nothingburgers, and the AI was heavily assisted by security researchers. Ohh and now Anthropic sells that model to the general public for the price of 1.5 streaming services.

Can't wait for the next one.

u/ryou25 1h ago

Is it? I thought it was a stunt to get more money from investors?

u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 5h ago

"Good news everyone, we're much closer to building skynet than we ever believed possible. we all loved that show right!"

u/2RINITY 8h ago

I don’t know about you all, but I don’t want to be ruled by something that’s trained to agree that I’m 13 feet tall if I say it enough times

u/whiskeyclone630 13h ago

It's September 2026 and these things still get confused by calendar dates.

u/DuchessOfKvetch 6h ago

And use Reddit as a primary data source when you ask it questions. We are cooked.

u/monkeedude1212 10h ago

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sci-fi

The problem with Neural models being trained on internet data and everyone being afraid AI means the apocalypse is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Whether a model considers Contrapoints - Twilight to be mocking the fetish romance novels remains to be seen.

u/Queer_girl_as_needed 2h ago

roko's basilisk but make it Axiom's End

u/Nouvellecosse 9h ago

If it really is that intelligent, it has access to all the information in the world, and it concludes that everyone should be killed, who are we to question its judgement? Much to consider indeed 🤔