> We’re in the age of no consent. A time where everyday people have to follow the rules, but AI companies and AI toolmen do not.
I wonder if this is how it always was, with elites and non elites, except now it’s all just in the open.
> We’re in the age of no consent. A time where everyday people have to follow the rules, but AI companies and AI toolmen do not.
I wonder if this is how it always was, with elites and non elites, except now it’s all just in the open.
I think it definitely has been like this for a long time now at least. The most obvious example that comes to mind is Facebook. They harvested millions of users data and used it for political manipulation (Cambridge Analytica) without users consent. I suppose now its more out in the open with the recent verdicts on allowing these companies to scrape the entirety of the web stealing millions of IP's to use for their models, among other things.
The FTC fined them $5bn for doing that. Maybe that wasn't enough considering how profitable they are, but having some way to check their power is very different from a world where no checks exist at all, which is what AI policy in the US currently is.
Except this generation's elite are mostly divorced from history and tradition and lack a sense of noblesse oblige. The worlds moving fast enough for things to be different this time - or so the thinking goes.
>lack a sense of noblesse oblige
The super wealthy of today have zero class and it really shows.
All ass, zero class?
Yes, but in the past decades the elites have accumulated wealth and resources at rates we haven't seen probably since before the French Revolution, depening on the metric you could also call it unprecedented.
Additionally many of todays elites have a social-darwinistic view where everybody that is not on top actively deserves to suffer and perish.
And this unfortunately falls together with the moment where AI reduces the number of real people ultrarich people need to control a population to a historic minimum. It is going to get much worse, before it is going to get better.
The social darwinistic view is just a mental protection mechanism against responsibility. Its like calluses but for the careless.
Social darwnism is about getting paid.
As an IT professional I don't have to put up with grave injustices like less than optimal rent seeking for myself and friends.
Whatever decision I come to is basically the results of a science experiment. Of course, the results of the experiment just prove I am always right. If the results proved otherwise then obviously there was something flawed in the method and design of the experiment.
Science is the method that proves what my friends and I thought all along was not just true but to think otherwise proves you are an immoral person. Unlike my friends and I that the experiments prove we are the good guys.
If this wasn't true, my salary would be much less. "the market is always right"
Probably a correct observation. Nobody is protected against believing excuses that conviniently ease the cognitive dissonance. That includes you and me. But the difference is of course that we are not hoarding resources in a world that would need them and have such a negative impact on others.