I think what makes me so incredibly angry about AI is that it’s not there to reduce *your* work. It’s there to reduce the amount of labor that CEOs have to pay for.
There’s no world in which doing *your* job a little faster is worth the trillions of dollars in investment; this is entirely predicated on eliminating working class jobs.
And *no one* should be excited about that, except for billionaires.
@krusynth It's been interesting experiencing the mad dash to AI while working for an older company that's filled with gunshy nerds like myself who worry about the efficacy, the security, the stability, etc.
What I've found when it's approached from that perspective, the footprint is much smaller and it's almost universally around making annoying things easier for the staff, it doesn't serve the C-level in the slightest beyond making the staff happier.
That's ultimately what makes *me* so mad about AI. If you look at what tools we've implemented, they're mobility aids disguised as AI. I'm terrible at note-taking because I can't focus on both writing and listening at the same time. So now I can flip a switch and have something reliably take notes for me and I can concentrate on the meeting at hand.
It makes me angry that there are all these mad cash grabs that burn half a forest to make a single person more billionaire than another billionaire when it could be used to just make life easier for people.
@krusynth It's not even that, because that isn't going to happen.
What it's for is to devalue human work.
The statistical facts are clear: AI has not reduced workforce. AI has not reduced work hours. AI has not increased productivity.
But AI has devalued human work.
That is what the exploiter class is paying for.
@skry @krusynth This. While I can (and do!) complain about the quality of "AI", that's really irrelevant because at the current environmental costs it doesn't matter if it can do everything they claim - the future of everyone alive and of upcoming generations is too high a price to pay.
I'm saddened that this just doesn't seem to be a view most people recognize. They assume that if they aren't paying there's "no harm" in using it.
*cough* military use *cough*
...needs a bit investment from the public before its good enough to handle the poor masses during climat and refugeecrisis and the coming western socialcreditsystem...
And here we are chucklefucking our way right into it like "oh cool duurrrrrrr"
Even DuckDuckGo has ai fuck.
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