THEFT IS LEGAL

AI corporations are putting all their chips on railroading legislators around the world to prevent regulation of the industry long enough so they can figure out a way of making their businesses profitable, no matter what the cost to culture, society, the planet, or even to the precious economy they claim to love.

Unfortunately most leaders are middle aged or older and easily bamboozled about new technology and the utopian claims of tech-fantasist snake oil salesmen like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

OpenAI is not going to create a super intelligent god on earth, it's going to basically make a new version of Google, another fucking advertising platform, and they're going to destroy the internet and human culture in order to do so. As a proposition that doesn't sound worth it, but if you frame it as an inevitable fourth industrial revolution that will solve every problem from cancer to global warming and provide unlimited amounts of everything you could ever want, then politicians start to lap it up.

I don't have room here to explain all the ways that this technology is a dystopian nightmare, but one thing I learned recently made my blood run cold. ChatGPT 4.0 was trained on almost all the available data on the internet. For OpenAI to create more advanced models than this, it needs more data. So their plan is to release wearable AI devices that record everything in your vicinity at all times. A 360 degree surveillance state with everything you say or do fed into machines designed to replace you? Sounds great!

We need leaders to stop drinking the tech-bro jizz Kool Aid and bring forward stringent regulation on the theft and abuse of creative work by these massive corporations, before we're so drowned in slop that we can no longer do anything to stop them.