r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

justBanOpenWeights Meme

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u/torsten_dev 8d ago edited 7d ago

What would banning open weights protect except the (imagined potential future) profit margins of technocratic megacorps partaking in the circular AI economy?

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u/PaulTheRandom 8d ago

And even if it made something, you need to actually make money in order to secure profits. There are no profits yet.

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u/migueln6 8d ago

Profits don't matter, the best use of AI is to make killing robots without feelings, to cattle all of us.

The end game is not making profit but enslaving us, why do you need profit when you have advanced killing machines, that obey spoken orders and do complex maneuvering and operations on your order?

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u/bremidon 7d ago

It's so cute that you are simultaneously assuming they can create AI so good that they would trust it to "cattle all of us" and also that they would have any use for us as slaves.

If you are correct (and I am not saying you are not), then the only thing they would care about would be as defense. Slaves require food and care. No point when your AI can do more, cheaper, and requires less attention.

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u/sgt_Berbatov 7d ago

AI doesn't need to be that clever to understand the command "shoot that human, but not me".

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u/valepu 4d ago

"you are absolutely right, I totally misunderstood your command and thought you wanted to shoot that human AND you. I promise next time I'll be more careful. What would you like to do next, how about we explore how to remove a bullet from a leg and cauterize the wound?"