I don’t think it’s surprising - some people already consider the actions of AI execs and tech companies to be synonymous to violence. Like, comparing something like this to destroying the livelihoods of millions of people, a lot of people would consider the latter far worse.

Temperature is certainly going up, but it definitely hasn’t reached historic levels yet lol.

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_bohm 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Structural violence is the term most commonly used for this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence

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closeparen 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do not think that marketing products and services that do useful work is “violence.”

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hungryhobbit 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Illegally mass surveying Americans, and mass murdering people in other countries is "useful work"?

Because Anthropic just lost their US government contract (AND got slapped with a completely false order that prevents them from working with any government agency) because they wouldn't do the above ... and then OpenAI slid right in and said "yeah, we can do that".

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hananova 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What you think does not matter. You need to actually convince the downtrodden, otherwise these attacks will keep happening, and they will get worse.

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malfist 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Useful work like selecting an all girls school in Iran for triple taps?

Useful work like generating mountains of deepfake misinformation?