#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #BigTech: "Most people don’t realise how much is being gambled on imposing this technology on the public. Last year, almost all of the wealth gained by the richest people in the world (96 per cent of the gains recorded by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index) came from the boom in certain AI-related stocks, such as Nvidia and Microsoft. Generative AI is not necessarily useless or evil, but it is being implemented as fast as possible, with little regard for the consumer, in order to please financial markets that are in thrall to its promises.
If you buy the new iPhone, or Google’s new Pixel phone, you are taking part in an experiment into what happens when you outsource thinking and feeling to generative AI. You don’t know how it will affect your child’s emotional development if you let a machine take over the job of teaching them how to react to life’s more difficult moments. You don’t know what it will cost you if you accept that a machine will always know the right thing to say."
https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2024/09/do-not-buy-ai-smartphone