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hot take, the current generative AI hype and wave of generative AI tech is irredeemable colonialist garbage and if you support it you are an enemy of the commons
Mar 11 at 9:06amWeb
Show threaddominicMar 11

@typeswitch unfortunately explaining the way this connects to colonialism to the people who need to hear it would take a week

I've been meaning to write an email to my team lead expressing how I feel about the company's eager AI use and I wish I could just find the magic phrase to make them understand this

Show threadjellMar 11

@typeswitch People who I thought had this down, who were saying the right things, keeping away from llms/genai, suddenly now being so ok with claudecode, specifically, is doing me in.

Like - I've never really felt widespread, reciprocated class solidarity in my life, but this is the first time I've felt ACTIVE BETRAYAL by people I know are capable of knowing, doing, empathizing better.

So fucking tired.

Show threadAnthonyMar 11
@[email protected] @[email protected] I feel this way, betrayed, both about COVID and about genai. I thought basic empathy and people's better natures would prevail with respect to COVID, but no. I thought people's technical understanding coupled with camaraderie around hardware and software would prevail with respect to genai, but no. The only silver linings I can see is that all this has taught me a lot about people, public health, and the state of my discipline that I didn't grasp before. And it strengthened ties with the people who didn't lose their heads. Still not fun for all that.