@Gregmaletic
Good points. Although you could say a core output of AI is malware in content and code, undermining academia, democracy, art, etc. Also, a killer app of AI is advertising. So, because of much greater reach, its total negative impact is likely to be much greater than bitcoin. I'm certainly not in any way defending bitcoin, which I consider a deep, depraved evil.
@gedeonm
@gerrymcgovern @gedeonm You could be right. No doubt the output of AI will be a mixed bag.
Just a hunch: I suspect the good will outweigh the (notable and significant) bad. For example, in a few years, every major scientific discovery will likely be found by AI. I still believe that AI will be an enormous benefit to the art community, even though they don’t believe it yet. And that AI itself will be able to mitigate some of its bad outputs. The trajectory of this story is unknown