AI rift tearing Silicon Valley apart as billionaires battle loss of morals and tech’s threat to humanity is revealed [Video]

TECH tycoons stand at a crossroads: champion artificial intelligence to stay in the Silicon Valley arms race, or stand by your morals.

At least this is how it seems. The rise of AI, and the fervor with which technocrats have embraced it, have received lukewarm reactions from users.

Beyond fears over the prospective culling of the job market, generative AI has faced the brunt of the criticism.

Models train on large swathes of data pulled from the Internet, including public social media profiles and content created by artists and journalists.

This is almost always taken without permission, introducing a type of intrusion into peoples’ lives that is new and unfamiliar.

Top executives are responding in stride, with some defending the development of machine learning systems while others push back.

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