A recorded livestream discussion on ethical issues in generative artificial intelligence featuring CJ Trowbridge, Future Inifinitive, and The Real Cornpop.

My main takeaways of the topics discussed:

The practical impossibility of any real ban or limits in a post-international-law world
Lack of explicit consent vs fair use rights
Derivative work vs stolen work
Alignment
- Elon assumes he can force AI to act like Stephen Miller; it’s more likely to act like the hundreds of thousands of administrative beurocrats who refused to go along with him.
Consolidation of power/ wealth
- Epistemic Power
  - Centralized corporate/oligarch control over the social construction of truth and knowledge
  - The only truth is whatever serves capital
  - Bias and representation
    - What perspectives does a model built by {Sama, Elon, Zucc} ignore, exclude, or erase
- Cloud Capital
  - Very large models are almost exclusively built/run by rent-seeking coprorations/oligarchs

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