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Author likens AI ban advocates to Mao-era youth

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The author argues that individuals advocating for a complete ban on Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a mindset similar to that of 1960s youth who blindly supported Chairman Mao and the Little Red Book. This perspective suggests a recurring pattern of uncritical adherence to ideologies, applied here to the fear surrounding AI. AI

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Author likens AI ban advocates to Mao-era youth

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    people who think LLMs are so evil they should be just banned are the descedants of the 1960s children who praised Chairman Mao and waved copies of the Little Re

    people who think LLMs are so evil they should be just banned are the descedants of the 1960s children who praised Chairman Mao and waved copies of the Little Red Book same childish mindset https:// blog.google/innovation-and-ai/ models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atl…

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