If you have experience and effective training browsing the dark web, there are several examples of your concerns already coming alive.

Bot farms have levelled up to ai farms, with various models being made as ‘specialist’ ai’s for things like credit card theft, network intrusion, malware, etc, and from when I last looked into it a few months ago they had already moved on to attempt to get all the specialists to start training general purpose models.

Things are not looking particularly great and I would posit if AGI does happen in our lifetime it’s not going to be because anyone alive actually intended that to happen, but the criminals running a wide variety of specialists train a general purpose ai with intentions to use it for easy money.

I usually chirp back with ‘nothing we have now is really AI’ but I can’t seriously take that view with some of the things being tested by some criminal organizations these days and there’s not really a way to stop this from happening.

As someone with military experience, military members, especially flag officers, are not the brightest bulbs in the world and are easily awed by extremely simple tech demonstrations.

It’s already too late, make sure you’ve got your favorite food and beverages ready because several countries already have autonomous weapons being live tested in the middle east, and from my understanding of the situation, the new jets already have some hilariously incompetent AI in them (in simulation, the air force contractor that was in control kept giving ethical barriers to objective completion and the ai went to kill the controller to more easily complete the objective…)

e. public sources: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

(The above are public articles maintained to minimize concern surrounding the tech which is why the air force almost immediately walked back their accidental admissions with the following statement:

“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology. This was a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation,” said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek. "

From my understanding, of course take this with a grain of salt since I’m an anon on a message board, we did do this.)

And these companies will pay a small fine and continue doing it anyway

I was more referencing the fact that there’s a significant problem in china with the misappropriation of funds and replacing of real components and equipment with fake or non-functioning components and equipment.

US has regulatory bodies that (sometimes) work on their own, China has regulatory bodies that only work when the state notices something is wrong, and by that time it’s too late and several billion yuan (RMB) deep.

It’s not as though there’s an intended malevolence to the people by the CCP, it’s just that their organization structure and manner doesn’t allow for a lot of autonomy and requires direct orders to go into action.

This is a ridiculous propagandist article.

Cool.

And how many of them function properly?

Anyone who does this should be blacklisted entirely

Calling anything we have now “AI” is a marketing gimmick.

There is not one piece of software that exists currently that can truly be labelled AI, it’s just advertising for the general population that doesn’t educate themselves on current computing technology.

“Generate this copyrighted character”

“Look, it showed us a copyrighted character!”

Does everyone that writes for the NYTimes have a learning disability?

I’d posit a well rounded education doesn’t necessarily agree with that. You don’t need a professional education in a topic to be able to provide a decent opinion, it’s just that many people opt not to work on their own educations and prefer to be spoon fed materials, and it’s this behaviour that produces morons in almost every context, rather than individuals that have problematic views in a few topics.

taking pro se forces the company to provide evidence and pay for lawyers while you just wait for their case to build, if they don’t have a case, then there’s no problem, if it gets to trial they have to prove damages, since there aren’t any, that will be difficult to prove.

Taking pro se is not recommended in most situations but in this one, where the damages are entirely made up, taking pro se would not be overly tumultuous

Some people on lemmy are smart, likely a higher ratio than many other sites, but there’s still a ridiculous surplus of fools

I’ll never pay for another capcom game but you can be damn sure that doesn’t mean I’ll never play another capcom game.

Good work you old dipshits, shooting your long time fanbase instead of doing literally anything else

It’s important to keep in context who is building them, how they’re being built, and with what oversight they are built.

We are in no way perfect in the west but we are easily a century ahead in insuring build quality and regulatory oversight.

I don’t take any company seriously that expects their customer base to willingly allow ring zero access.

It’s called nuclear energy. It was discovered in 1932 and properly harnessed with an effective reactor that consumes both radioactive material and waste (CANDU) in 1950’s/1960’s and the newest CANDU reactors are some of the safest and most efficient energy generation in the world.

Pretending like there needs to be a larger investment into something like cold fusion in order to run these computers is incredibly dishonest or presenting a clear hole in education coverage. (The DoE should still work on researching cold fusion, but not because of this.)

I’ve picked xfce on basically every distro I’ve used and I’ve hopped through like 30 distro’s.

Wow, something anyone with a brain noted 20 years ago is finally being acknowledged.

takes lace gloves off

I feel extremely called out right now.

puts lace gloves back on

The people that write laws and the systems that enforce laws are inept to an unbeliavable degree when dealing with anything cyber related so I have less than zero expectations that this gets reversed and actually expect a worse outcome should there be an appeal.

Because somehow only the most incompetent morons appear to be able to make it to judge or law maker.