No reason this would be mutually exclusive.

Yeah but that’s damage to artists. AI music gives Spotify something to put into a playlist that they don’t have to pay even their meagre rate to.

How is paying a robot money in any way equivalent to paying a government to maintain society?

What’s with tech people always stating (marketing) things as akin to high end sports cars. The state of AI is more like arguing over which donkey is best, lol.

Googles push for everything is aggressive. Their apps constantly push Chrome on me.

Based on what? There is tons of amazing art being produced in every region of the world. More than any time in human history.

You people are fucking delusional. “Human creativity” hasn’t fallen because some venture capitalists push their fake music up a list that doesn’t even mean anything.

Only it fucking hasn’t.

This is the worst take I’ve ever seen.

Unfortunately it doesn’t have to be better than the worker, we all know this sucks at most of the things it’s being touted as great at.

It just has to convince management who make decisions that it’ll save money (or that they can spin it that way) for the next quarter. That alone is enough to destroy people’s lives.

China demoed tech that can recognize people based on the gait of their walk. Mask or not. This would be a really interesting topic if it wasn’t so scary.

Terrible argument. You can’t ignore scale. Algorithmic timelines increase efficacy and precision of ads tremendously. These platforms know exactly who to target with what ad, at what time, with what frequency to get the desired result. It’s like comparing a horse and buggy to a sports car.

Generative ads will be even worse because they can be made specifically to each individual.

Social media has been around a long time. It is not reasonable to expect people to think of technology they can’t imagine even existing ten years in the future when “consenting” to use a platform. Legally you are correct. Morally this is obviously terrible. Everything about how terms and conditions are communicated is designed to take advantage of people who won’t or are unable to parse its meaning. Consent needs to be informed.

Only the real things are actual humans who have likely not consented to ever being in this database at all let alone having parts of their likeness being used for this horrific shit. There is no moral argument for this garbage:

The real DNA negates a lot of that unfortunately. If any family member also used the service they can use that to triangulate your identity.

Honestly, both here and on Reddit I see more of that blind faith for Google and Microsoft. It’s so weird that the open-source community has a slice of people insisting their giant company is somehow virtuous because it’s slightly less fashionable. Even weirder when they write paragraph’s psychoanalyzing imaginary people.

So far so good though Shopify being a major sponsor makes me doubt their long term direction.