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How do you figure that AI is the answer to environmental collapse? Don't get me wrong, copyright law is stupid, but I guess I just don't buy into all of the AI hype to the extent that others are.
I believe it will require a level and pace of informational processing that is far beyond what humans will accomplish alone. just having a system that can efficiently sift through the excess existing papers, and find correlations or contradictions would be amazing for development of new technology. if you are paying attention to any environmental sciences right now, it's terrifying in an extremely real and tangible way. we will not outpace the collapse without an intense increase in technological development.
if we bridge the gap of analogical comprehension in these systems, they could also start introducing or suggesting technologies that could help slow down or reverse the collapse. i think this is much more important than making sure sarah silverman doesn't have her work paraphrased.
I disagree with your assessment that the climate crisis calls for a technical or scientific solution. We already have the technology and scientific information needed to fix the problem. The reason we haven't yet is actually for political and economic reasons. I can't envision a scenario where AI is able to fix the broken economic system that refuses to stop plundering our planet. I can't see AI fixing our politicians or PACs that manufacture lies and propaganda, keeping people oblivious to what's happening.
We already know how to stop climate change, but we, as in capitalist society, does not want to.