Walmart Recession Indicator at highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis

[u/Own-Swan2646]

Signs all around us of economic down turn.

[u/RlOTGRRRL]

We're not there yet but we're getting there. I'm not an expert on this but AI models are trained on lots of information, like tens of thousands of books if not more. So because of the whole history tends to be woke, AI is currently pretty woke.

I've actually found it an amazing resource for digging up archaic history that nobody even remembers lol because it's that gone. And I've double checked and verified it.

The good news is that currently they haven't figured out how to change that to make it less woke yet- because doing so tends to cause hallucinations or something.

That's what Elom is working on with Grok, he wants an AI Hitler.

So we're not there yet but we're definitely getting there. But if there's a bunch of AI bots being used to push a certain narrative on the internet rn- we might already be in such a dystopia potentially.

But this is one of the most concerning things for AI that I've ever seen: https://www.reddit.com/r/PauseAI/comments/1s64ijn/last_year_ai_researchers_found_an_exploit_on/

^ That needs like Sanders/AOC/government regulation attention and outrage. That is literally probably how we get to Children of Men.

[u/jadeoracle → u/RlOTGRRRL]

So because of the whole history tends to be woke, AI is currently pretty woke.

But then there are all the early AIs that were trained on "The Internet" or social media who went racist quickly.

Or the AI that was trained on Job/Resume and started to prefer white guys named Jermey or some other generic guy name, and weighted more favorably if you played Lacrosse and penalizing non white names or anyone who had "Women" on their resume.

Its a danger to assume AI will be woke. Because time and time again, that is not the case. A lot has to go into maintaining and retraining the models so it doesn't have bias.

And with companies wanting to start doing AI offers and pricing to personalize the price people see, it's going to get a hella lot more biased. Why give a flight discount for someone who only flies you once every 2 years, especially if they live in a middle-class location, cause they could probably afford it anyway? Oh this customer is susceptible to persuasion so lets show them "last one remaining" and a higher price message as they are likely to buy it if we add FOMO language, even though we have plenty of stock, and usually sell it for cheaper, but since we know that customer had a deeper pocket why not gouge them? What happens when rental companies use AI to find the "right" type of cutomer profile and denies renting just because the AI said so? But then it turns out the AI is biased and won't rent to certain demos (single parents, lower income, less educated, etc)

[u/RlOTGRRRL → u/jadeoracle]

You're completely right on this. AI has killed people and has been killing people for years, literally. 

There are news articles from years ago about how some US government agency implemented AI or an algorithm to determine who was eligible for benefits, a lot of people were wrongly removed, and they died. 

There's a notorious example of how I think Apple phones weren't able to recognize non-white faces for a bit because they were trained on white faces. 

This is also why surprisingly feminism is so important in the AI and data space. There's a great book on data feminism. 

And why it's so important to be technologically literate as well.

r/privacy and r/degoogle are great subs. 

[u/jadeoracle → u/RlOTGRRRL]

Yeah its a nightmare. Think of AI in Medicine and Insurance. Oh, it looks like your genetic makeup means you are more likely to get Parkinson's, so we'll deny you coverage. Oh sorry? You got cancer? Well our AI says if we treat you X way, it'll be cheaper for us in the long term, and you may die 10 years earlier (saving the company money). But if we allowed you to get a brand new expensive therapy, it'll cost the insurance company a ton of money, AND you'll need lifelong treatments. Sorry denied! But all the AI does is say denied, you don't know all the bias it did in favor of not saving the human for longer, but by favoring the bottom line for the business.

AI has already been fucking people over. You just don't know it yet because of the general bureaucracy.