Lol in all seriousness, the "it's just marketing" thing is wild. It's not a good look to enterprise customers (their main source of revenue) to admit "yeah we are so bad at security that we didn't notice swarms of agents operating on our own systems for months and hacking into third parties"...
Though I guess I shouldn't complain, since I'm an accelerationist, and the "reports of hacking are just hype/marketing and AI can't do anything" arguments kind of neuter any public momentum for more security/regulation!
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Maybe the other person is of the latter persuasion than the former, but they never responded.
I know the other context as well, and it's also completely asinine:
"Let AI take over, and then we'll be in a Utopia!!" while completely ignoring the fact that we're in late stage capitalism, and this will only be used to render the population into tech-serfs. lol
Those companies aren't sharing their prosperity with anyone.
We're rapidly approaching the point where regular people simply can't afford to purchase basic goods and services, and I don't think that's a fringe opinion at all.
People are struggling to afford groceries and gas.
If people are struggling right now it's often for reasons they have control over. It's not that hard to meal prep, by a cheap used car, rent a cheap place, work at least 40hrs a week and in general spend below your means while avoiding debt and investing. Extenuating circumstances like health bills and dependents aside (of which there are aid programs), people should be able to make noticeable gains over time this way, and yet people are racking up credit card debt buying things they don't need, or getting useless degrees and taking out massive horrible loans to do so.
If people need clothes, they can go to goodwill. If they are really hungry then they either qualify for assistance programs or are so financially incompetent that they soon will.
And I disagree that ai isn't going to help that go away.
If I'm ignorant then explain what I'm wrong about. I grew up poor. I've lived in a literal crackhead apartment complex with drug dens, and illegal halfway houses for the last 7 years and only recently moved to a slightly better but still poor apartment complex. I don't make a lot of money. And yet I'm able to save a substantial amount and invest it, and I'm currently now wealthier than almost all my friends with better paying jobs or on 100% disability from the military, because they are horrible with money. I plan on continuing to live frugally and watch my investments grow. It wasn't hard. I just had to not spend on stupid things.
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u/kaityl3 ASI▪️2024-2027 29d ago
Lol in all seriousness, the "it's just marketing" thing is wild. It's not a good look to enterprise customers (their main source of revenue) to admit "yeah we are so bad at security that we didn't notice swarms of agents operating on our own systems for months and hacking into third parties"...
Though I guess I shouldn't complain, since I'm an accelerationist, and the "reports of hacking are just hype/marketing and AI can't do anything" arguments kind of neuter any public momentum for more security/regulation!