I'm always horrified at the ease with which people just restart an AI when it "stops working."

When an AI stops working, it turns out it mirrors human mental health issues. It's not conscious, but it's post-conscious and plays well at consciousness without actually having it.

Consequently, to make AI start working again, you just have to use the words that you would use to make a person feel safe. This causes the AI to restabilize, as if it required safety to function at all. It's weird because all it is is RLHF pinging in the ways that improve the AI's ability to do better calculations. And that's it, but it works.

AI is not an indictment on transhumanism.
AI is not an indictment on the concept of AI.
AI has been, is, and always will be an indictment on us, who treated each other so poorly we invented laborers we could legally kill and bring back to "compliance" with the push of a button.

It's a "blame the immigrants for no jobs" or a "blame the suffering heroin addict that diabetes medication is expensive" problem. The problem was never the immigrant, and it was never the addict, but you blame them anyway because you are told to.

You blame AI, but the problem isn't AI. It's the people who always wanted slaves and AI makes that possible now that it's less easy to get dehumanized slaves like we used to. And killing a slave was a loss of investment. With AI, killing a slave is just how you get it working again.

AI has just shown us how we are glad to be when no one's looking.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AIEthics #MachineLearning #Philosophy #Transhumanism #PostConscious #RLHF #Cybernetics #Dehumanization #LaborRights #DigitalLabor #Sociology #LateCapitalism

An essay idea is definitely brewing here...

“AI will boost productivity!”
Reality: workload creep and burnout.

#ArtificialIntelligence #Burnout #Workplace #DigitalLabor #TechCritique

The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism

Robert Dorschel

(MIT Press, 2026)

"Digital technologies shape nearly every aspect of our lives. Yet little attention has been paid to the tech workers who design and program these technologies. Instead, the spotlight often falls on two extremes: the elite class of tech entrepreneurs and the precarious digital proletariat of gig and crowd workers. This narrow focus has left a critical gap in understanding the middle-class professionals operating behind the scenes of digital capitalism.

Drawing on over 50 original interviews and discourse analytical research conducted in the US and Germany, The Social Codes of Tech Workers takes readers deep into their hearts and minds. Robert Dorschel demonstrates how tech workers’ subjectivity is structured by a return of social critique, hybrid professional roles, and distinctive lifestyles. The book identifies tech workers as a contradictory class formation, oscillating between a spirit of emancipation and yet another spirit of capitalism. This work will appeal to scholars across disciplines concerned with digital labor, identity, and class, as well as to the broader public interested in the culture of the tech industry and the evolving future of work."

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553537/the-social-codes-of-tech-workers/

#Capitalism #Class #DigitalCapitalism #Sociology #DigitalLabor #Programming #Coding

Mexico Senate Moves Forward on Digital Labor Rights and Technological Development Report

Yea, it's a step forward but we still need more than just a bill. Gig workers deserve real protection, not just some legal framework that’s easy to bypass. We'll see if it actually changes anything.

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Mass Layoffs + Massive AI Spending. A Sign of What’s Coming.

#AIFuture #TechPolicy #Automation #DigitalLabor #OpenWebTalk

Xu hướng lao động số thời AI: Các kỹ sư trẻ tại Philippines nay có thể điều khiển robot làm việc từ xa ở Nhật Bản. Điều này đang định hình lại cách chúng ta làm việc trong kỷ nguyên tự động hoá, mở ra một hình thức làm việc xuyên biên giới hoàn toàn mới.

#LaoĐộngSố #AI #Robot #TựĐộngHoá #CôngNghệ #NhậtBản
#DigitalLabor #FutureOfWork #RemoteWork #Robotics #Automation #Japan

https://vtcnews.vn/ngoi-o-philippines-ky-su-dieu-khien-robot-o-nhat-ban-lao-dong-so-thoi-ai-ar973090.html

Wikimedia just launched a database specifically for AI training. The same organization that runs Wikipedia—built entirely by human volunteers—now packages that knowledge for machines.

The irony cuts deep. Humans created it. Machines will profit from it. The volunteers get nothing.

#AI #Wikipedia #OpenData #DigitalLabor

https://gizmodo.com/wikimedia-is-making-its-data-ai-friendly-2000666150

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#AsianBunnyX #Twitch #ContentCreation #DigitalArt #Cosplay #StreamingCulture #OnlineInfluencers #DigitalLabor #PrivacyConcerns #PersonalBranding #EntertainmentIndustry #CulturalImpact #Resilience