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They are against it because anything bad that could come of further adoption of AI will happen if it's profitable for the capitalists. Even now NVIDIA is continuing to pump the bubble when everyone knows it's a bubble, because of the profits.
The prospects are entirely different in China, because capitalists are regulated. But nobody who is vehemently against AI is aware of the difference and likely will tell you China is capitalist. So all the problems that arise from capitalist control of AI are ascribed to AI alone as well.
The prospects are entirely different in China, because capitalists are regulated.
The potential consequences are severely reduced because of this, but up to a point the government will allow capitalists to do the same harmful things they do in the west. They just won't allow them to collapse the whole economy and destroy the lives of half the country. That doesn't necessarily mean that the prospects of LLMs are fundamentally different, just that their potential fallout is much more limited because China is not capitalist.
but up to a point the government will allow capitalists to do the same harmful things they do in the west.
Can you please give any examples of the Chinese government allowing capitalists to do harmful things to the Chinese people?
Commodification of housing is a recent example. They were allowed to do harm, up to a point. When the bubble popped, the state caught it to prevent it from doing massive harm.
This is a strange question to even ask. China has labor exploitation, China has capitalists, China has rent seeking behavior, these are all things that do harm people and the Chinese government acknowledges them. That's what the socialist market economy means, you take the bad with the good.
I scanned the thread and am not sure if anyone else has mentioned that GenAI is obliterating the value of creators' (i.e., visual artists, musicians, writers, etc.) labor. This is ruining people's livelihoods and will drastically reduce the amount of new human artistic output.
This is on top of the various other economic, environmental, ethical, and inaccuracy issues with it. This is all why I won't touch the stuff.