In 20 years, humans won't be qualified to drive

AI's kind of like a capstone project for society, it's going to cost us more than money and it's already taking down payments.

much of society or shows off the skills of AI users. Generative AI is the theft of the world's knowledge and culture for the profit and power of the AI companies and those who control/own them.

It's not only the most harmful non-weapon tech ever developed, it's the stupidest because of those harms.

It's a bad trip into a tech dystopia.

And if you could go back in time even 10 years to a science fiction convention and tried to.explain to the SF writers there that the most-hyped tech in a decade would be AI that always hallucinated so its results always had to be checked, and that worked even some of the time only because of the ripoff of the world's intellectual property, they'd have a hard time believing it would ever be popular (and the IP theft really wouldn't go over well).

The biggest "accomplishment" of AI bros like Sam Altman has been conning too many people into.thinking it's a great product.

Agree with you about "generative AI" being, in itself, an unhelpful theft of culture. Currently, what we see of it cannot be trusted. However, I would note that what the public is allowed by host foundations to see and use is largely smokescreens and hogwash, it's major use beyond concept normalization is to create training data for expert systems and test vectors for better AIs that people aren't seeing yet outside of particular niche products, like SDVs. Much of the "real" AI work continues along these lines, while humanity at large is given access to the lightweight sloppifiers for farting-around purposes -- as you say, "conning too many people into thinking it's a great product."

i don't need it

i'm never gonna have it.

so their cameras can tell if you are smoking a reefer or guzzljin a pbr? makin' out after midnite in the backseat of my accura? none of some ai's business.

"might i suggest you are smoking too much state approved prescription after giving it up fit up r new years.

No. Never going to happen here. Ever.

believe you me, that's coming.

I'll stick with my classic Hondas.

Besides, they'll run forever.

Then you'll have your per month tiers:
Free: $0.00, all the ads, so many ads there's no speaker time for anything else, just set the car on fire
Bronze: $14.95, lots of ads but not ALL the ads
Silver: $19.95, some ads but not lots of ads
Gold: $24.95, just the ads we really want you to have
Platinum: $49.95, no ads except the mandatory ads on initial car startup each day
Unobtainium: $59.95, subliminal ads only, you won't hear them but damn you'll want some Arby's

I noticed another post of yours seemed to suggest you felt there were too many posts about AI in LBN: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220902313#post10

You will see a lot of threads about AI here, including in LBN, because the AI bros and companies are a threat, just as Trump and Musk (also mentioned in that thread) are. There was another strong reminder of that yesterday: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143591926

Is your generative AI (gAI) obsession pro or con? I don't think I've seen anyone else here with AI in their user name.

She should probably have "LG" in her user name.

You might want to xpost to Auto Enthusiasts Forum.

Wht a nightmare, hu?

And it's not just Honda, they will ALL be doing this crap.

Yeah, this car is a nightmare. Nonstop surveillance and interference/distractions while driving.

No one wants this.

it'll helpfully suggest that you take a ride to your parent's house.

"Sure," you say, climbing in.

12.7 miles later, the car arrives. With no passengers inside...

("OOOOOOO! Scary stuff, huh, kids?" as Count Floyd would say.)

AI - mass intellectual theft, so that we can enjoy yet another shitty search engine or six, but with more effective ad targeting.

To say nothing of final nails in the global warming coffin.

Oh, and a useless digital thing that lets you car talk to your toaster and which will be expensive to fix when it fails.

Can you turn it off.

... the more likely it is to rat you out when you annoy it. No thanks.
We have a Honda and it's a great car, but this AI crap is an option I don't need or want.

As fun as a regular phone menu tree, times four!

What if my emotion is "I'm going to run that motherfucker off the road if he doesn't get his ass out of the fuckin' passing lane?"