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highplainsdem

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9. Just using AI dumbs users down and makes them dependent on AI. There are few if any good uses

Reply to Doodley (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 11:23 AM

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for genAI (most of the AI you hear about related to science and medicine is a different type of AI).

GenAI is addictive, too, for many users.

It's foolish to treat it as something that's good, or that would be good if only AI companies shared the profits.

For that matter, there really AREN'T any profits with genAI. It's incredibly expensive and the genAI industry is a bubble maintained so far by hype, delusional venture capitalists, and circular financing.

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Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (NYT, 6/1/2026) [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

No. QueerDuck Yesterday #1

Why not? highplainsdem Yesterday #3

A 50% STATE TAKEOVER of private companies is not the answer... it's overreach. QueerDuck Yesterday #24

Ownership of an AI built on public data is just. It gives the public class action standing in federal court. ancianita Yesterday #28

How does that help pay for the food, health, and shelter of the tens of millions of people who will lose their jobs Doodley Yesterday #2

It isn't enough. Ideally, generative AI models trained illegally should be destroyed, with new legal AI models highplainsdem Yesterday #4

I understand what you are saying, but the genie is already out of the bottle. This is where we are, and Doodley Yesterday #6

Just using AI dumbs users down and makes them dependent on AI. There are few if any good uses highplainsdem Yesterday #9

With all due respect, have you used it much? Doodley Yesterday #14

I've used it enough to know how it works and how tempting it can seem. And I've read thousands of highplainsdem Yesterday #19

With all due respect, I don't think you understand how incredibly useful AI is. Doodley Yesterday #21

With all due respect, you asked AI to give you ideas and tell you where to shop. IMO that's an example highplainsdem Yesterday #22

With all due respect, you are making a lot of assumptions. Doodley Yesterday #23

My "assumptions" were based on what you'd told me. highplainsdem Yesterday #29

Try all it's tech we paid for. In-Q-Tel funds or should I just say CIA. Blue Full Moon Yesterday #5

I don't want to own it. I want it to not exist. WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #7

Agreed. MineralMan Yesterday #8

Same here. But as I said above, in the meantime I like seeing regulations and penalties on AI suggested highplainsdem Yesterday #11

YES! Emile Yesterday #10

sigh... WarGamer Yesterday #12

It isn't true that "Training is Learning, Not Storing" - that's AI company propaganda to try to defend highplainsdem Yesterday #15

Thanks for the information. There is also a lot of people who have formed an opinion about AI Doodley Yesterday #16

See reply 15. highplainsdem Yesterday #20

Well, he's halfway there. BlueTsunami2018 Yesterday #13

Bingo!!! Doodley Yesterday #17

While everyone is debating the issue xuplate Yesterday #18

With what? 40% don't have enough cash to cover a $1000 emergency expense. thesquanderer 23 hrs ago #30

Norway has a sovereign wealth fund on oil and they're almost always ranked at the top of the list of happiest nations. Uncle Joe Yesterday #25

The AI bubble is on the cusp of a crash Bev54 Yesterday #26

Didn't Cervantes Write A Book About Bernie? ColoringFool Yesterday #27