Lemmy when gun death: “Gun proliferation was absolutely a factor, and we should throw red paint on anyone who gets on TV to say this is ‘just a mental health issue’ or ‘about responsible gun ownership’. They will say regulation is impossible, but people are dying just cuz Jim-Bob likes being able to play cowboy.”
Lemmy when AI death: “This is a mental health issue. It says he was seeing a therapist. Where were the parents? AI doesn’t kill people, people kill people. Everyone needs to learn responsible AI use. Besides, regulation is impossible, it will just mean only bad guys have AI.”
Lemmy is pretty anti-AI. Or at least the communities I follow are. I haven’t seen anyone blame the kid or the parents near as much as people rightfully attributing it to OpenAI or ChatGPT. edit- that is until I scrolled down on this thread. Depressing
When someone encourages a person to suicide, they are rightfully reviled. The same should be true of AI
The difference is that guns were built to hurt and kill things. That is literally the only thing they are good for.
AI has thousands of different uses (cue the idiots telling me its useless). Comparing them to guns is basically rhetoric.
Do you want to ban rope because you can hang yourself with it? If someone uses a hammer to kill, are you going to throw red paint at hammer defenders? Maybe we should ban discord or even lemmy, I imagine quite a few people get encouraged to kill themselves on communication platforms. A real solution would be to ban the word “suicide” from the internet. This all sounds silly but it’s the same energy as your statement.
Lemmy when gun death: “Gun proliferation was absolutely a factor, and we should throw red paint on anyone who gets on TV to say this is ‘just a mental health issue’ or ‘about responsible gun ownership’. They will say regulation is impossible, but people are dying just cuz Jim-Bob likes being able to play cowboy.”
Lemmy when AI death: “This is a mental health issue. It says he was seeing a therapist. Where were the parents? AI doesn’t kill people, people kill people. Everyone needs to learn responsible AI use. Besides, regulation is impossible, it will just mean only bad guys have AI.”
Lemmy is pretty anti-AI. Or at least the communities I follow are. I haven’t seen anyone blame the kid or the parents near as much as people rightfully attributing it to OpenAI or ChatGPT. edit- that is until I scrolled down on this thread. Depressing
When someone encourages a person to suicide, they are rightfully reviled. The same should be true of AI
The difference is that guns were built to hurt and kill things. That is literally the only thing they are good for.
AI has thousands of different uses (cue the idiots telling me its useless). Comparing them to guns is basically rhetoric.
Do you want to ban rope because you can hang yourself with it? If someone uses a hammer to kill, are you going to throw red paint at hammer defenders? Maybe we should ban discord or even lemmy, I imagine quite a few people get encouraged to kill themselves on communication platforms. A real solution would be to ban the word “suicide” from the internet. This all sounds silly but it’s the same energy as your statement.
Poor comparison of two wildly different techs
Nah
This kid likely indeed needed therapy. Yes, AI has a shitload of issues but it’s not murderous
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Holy manufactured strawman, Batman!
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