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Those companies are not trying to make a profit they are trying to make a cheap workforce for the rich that wont unionise or expect basic human rights.
I'm a little more cynical. I think the AI companies are making a fortune selling the fiction that human workers can be replaced.
Megacorps invest for the short-term gains (wage suppression via layoffs that are spun to be a positive thing) and avoids short-term losses (holdouts may lose investors because AI is hip).
To my mind that is not more cynical, it is just a layer of grift on top, like scum. The real cynicism is the misanthropy of betting against humanity.
It does have a demotivational effect as a threat.
There is also a growing cadre of these people who, I think, truly and deeply believe Peter Thiel's hype about making a godlike super AI. Silicon Valley has been due for a religious awakening for years, and a techno-god that you can, theoretically, entreat with personally from the safety of your browser window? It's tailor-made. At the very least, I feel like a lot of them have fallen into Pascal's Wager about the whole thing, and that's enough for them to devote time and energy and the limitless money they can beg or borrow to this.
Funnily enough, you just described the Zizians. There's a really good 4-part series of Behind the Bastards on them if you're interested
I'm familiar, but I think there's a lot of less extreme thought along the same lines throughout especially the C-levels and presidential classes. It's gone beyond being a selling point and started into being a full-on belief because they've been selling the lie so long.
FINALLY someone gets it without me having to explain it.
And its clearly not working
My concern is a mass depopulation when there are sufficient robo-slaves to take up the slack of maintaining society and producing technological progress. Although it'll likely be temporary. I'm fairly sure humans when digitized will grow in number or similarly when we start space exploration and colonization in earnest. Without FTL some faction could always just go somewhere else if they want to do society another way.
Okay, I'm a big fan of the torment nexus myself and I'm looking forward to it being unleashed. But while we wait, can we work on paying nurses a living wage or shit like that?
Where are you? Nurses make like $150K+ here.
Feel free to replace with any socio-economic problem where you live.
I can add a few to the stack. Teachers, daycare workers, and EMT.
Tbh, we're already looking at mass depopulation by 2100. Not a lot of people are having kids nowadays
Imo it's all for the government surveillance state. They already have terabytes upon terabytes of data, they just can't really use it. But an AI that could sift through all that shit in 5 minutes? Sounds great.
But I suppose both paths lead to AI companies getting bailed out.
They are so fixated on this that they are totally blind to that even if this were so it would remove the whole foundation of business: having customers able to pay, at all.