The stuff we don’t really need (TV etc) has become much more affordable. The stuff we can’t live without (food and shelter) has become less affordable.

A big question will be liability. If I have FSD enabled, is the software manufacturer liable if I crash? If I'm still liable as the driver, then it's unlikely I'll use it.

You're comparing with 100 years ago. The OP is comparing with 25 years ago, where we are seeing significant regression (as you also pointed out), and the trend forward is increasingly regressive.

We can spend $T to shove ultimately ad-based AI down everyone's throats but we can't spend $T to improve everyone's lives.

At last the commenter to who you respond was kind enough to give some facts.

> The majority of human history occurred without these systems of domination,

you mean hunter/gatherers before the establishment of dominant "civilizations"? That history ended about 5000 years ago.

> So if I had enough money I could get CBS news to deny the Holocaust? Of course not.

You absolutely could. But wouldn't be CBS news, it would be ChatGPT or some other LLM bot that you're interacting with everywhere. And it wouldn't say outright "the holocaust didn't happen", but it would frame the responses to your queries in a way that casts doubt on it, or that leaves you thinking it probably didn't happen. We've seen this before (the "manifest destiny" of "settling" the West, the whitewashing of slavery,

For a modern example, you already have Fox News denying that there was no violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election. And look how Grokipedia treats certain topics differently than Wikipedia.

It's not only possible, it's likely.

> You don't need any AI for this.

AI accelerates it considerably and with it being pushed everywhere, weaves it into the fabric of most of what you interact with.

If instead of searches you now have AI queries, then everyone gets the same narrative, created by the LLM (or a few different narratives from the few models out there). And the vast majority of people won't know it.

If LLMs become the de-facto source of information by virtue of their ubiquity, then voila, you now have a few large corporations who control the source of information for the vast majority of the population. And unlike cable TV news which I have to go out of my way to sign up and pay for, LLMs are/will be everywhere and available for free (ad-based).

We already know models can be tuned to have biases (see Grok).

Sure, they exist (wouldn't be credible if they didn't). But it's a red herring.

Because that is exactly what the hype says that "AI" can do for you.

I've had Claude try to pull the same trick on me just yesterday. It will also try to cheat and apply a "fix" that just masks the real problem.

Pretty much the same as Siri. Alexa isn't any better either.