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None of those concerns are new in principle: AI is the current thing that makes people worry about corporate and government BS but corporate and government BS isn't new.
Then: The cat is out of the bag, you won't be able to put it in again. If those things worry you the strategic move isn't to hope that suddenly, out of pretty much nowhere, capitalism and authoritarianism will fall never to be seen again, but to a) try our best to get sensible regulations in place, the EU has done a good job IMO, and b) own the tech. As in: Develop and use tech and models that can be self-hosted, that enable people to have control over AI, instead of being beholden to what corporate or government actors deem we should be using. It's FLOSS all over again.
Or, to be an edgelord to some of the artists out there: If you don't want your creative process to end up being dependent on Adobe's AI stuff then help training models that aren't owned by big CGI. No tech knowledge necessary, this would be about providing a trained eye as well as data (i.e. pictures) that allow the model to understand what it did wrong, according to your eye.
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I have used AI tools as a shooter/editor for years so I don’t need a lecture on this, and I did not say any of the concerns are new. Obviously, the implication is AI greatly enables all of these actions to a degree we’ve never seen before. Just like cell phones didn’t invent distracted driving but made it exponentially worse and necessitated more specific direction/intervention.