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"We shouldn't regulate #AI until we see some meaningful harm that is actually happening [...] There has to be at least a little bit of harm, so that we see what is the real problem" -- Microsoft Chief Economist to #WEF #GrowthSummit23
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Microsoft’s corporate VP and chief economist tells the World Economic Forum (WEF) that "AI will be used by bad actors," but “we shouldn’t regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm.” via @thesociable @TimHinchliffe

To him "harm" only means "monetary damage to Microsoft", ignores harm of artists and copyright, ignores harm of women with unconsented deepfake abuse and imagery, ignores datasets trained and used for CSAM and CP. Same as anyone promoting current AI.

??? this dude is a danger to society

Many people have been using this stuff to steal the work of creatives in multiple professions, steal the jobs of said creatives, scam people out of their money and information, generate deepfake pornography, and even generate pornography of minors. THERE ALREADY HAS BEEN HARM.

Not surprising, given the crypto and NFT crashes, thousands of lawsuits, entire banks collapsing. Tech corpos will do or say whatever they need to ride the "gold rush" phase of a tech as long as possible. Even if they know the destination is disastrous.

Thousands and thousands of jobs have been lost to AI. countless more freelancing opportunities have been lost to AI. Unwanted adult videos are being created, featuring faces of people who never agreed to it. We have deepfakes of events/speeches that never happened.

I wrote everything said in the interview down.

Let's regulate the news! It has harmed 🤷♂️

Nobody elected these people Hell, nobody even likes these people Our misstep in all this: allowing these people such unchecked carte blanche over the last 2+ decades, to the point where they truly believe they're the masters of human destiny & that we all simply defer to them.

It's not a little bit, it's tons. About 100 fake news an hour are being generated and posted, deepfake images spreading propaganda Also infringing on intellectual property and personal data. Is that little to you ?

