It may not be that obvious that the thing is bad for many people, and AI is a great example of that. Many haven’t heard of the actual environmental impact these machine learning models are having, or about the AI companies’ incessant quest of scraping every single thing that’s on the Internet, whether pirated or not, without paying or even asking for permission. Heck, most people don’t even know the basics of how these models work, or what they’re useful for! And its not like AI companies will be the first ones answering those questions. The sole reason why these companies became so successful is because almost no one knows what AI is, which results in almost nobody knowing what the technology’s limitations are. And when no limitations are apparent, it starts to look like the technology is limitless (it isn’t, but it’s being sold as if it were).
TL;DR it might be obvious to you and me that $bad_thing is bad, but that doesn’t make it obvious to every one else.
Yes. I cannot force people to read, but I can ensure (but I won’t actually follow through) that criticisms are readable to those with poor reading skills, and those that do not read English.
It may not be that obvious that the thing is bad for many people, and AI is a great example of that. Many haven’t heard of the actual environmental impact these machine learning models are having, or about the AI companies’ incessant quest of scraping every single thing that’s on the Internet, whether pirated or not, without paying or even asking for permission. Heck, most people don’t even know the basics of how these models work, or what they’re useful for! And its not like AI companies will be the first ones answering those questions. The sole reason why these companies became so successful is because almost no one knows what AI is, which results in almost nobody knowing what the technology’s limitations are. And when no limitations are apparent, it starts to look like the technology is limitless (it isn’t, but it’s being sold as if it were).
TL;DR it might be obvious to you and me that $bad_thing is bad, but that doesn’t make it obvious to every one else.
Yes. I cannot force people to read, but I can ensure (but I won’t actually follow through) that criticisms are readable to those with poor reading skills, and those that do not read English.