oh cool yet another “I’m exhausted by all the anti-AI anger” post got boosted onto my feed

please don’t let anyone gatekeep your own anger away from you, especially when your ability to exist and to make a living are both under active attack. if you’re angry because of LLM-enabled war crimes, the loss of our software commons, or any of the other wrongs the AI industry has started that never stopped, you aren’t wrong. you don’t owe the people enabling and forgiving this stuff your kindness.

@zzt The AI industry are desperate to make it inevitable, like the car or the internet, even as it ruins lives and breaks things that existed for decades and worked better without it. They need to control the discourse on the topic and have tried and failed at lumping people with legit concerns in with the Skynet doomerists, so now we're on to 'both sides!' faux centrism to try and guilt people with any sort of social conscience into being quiet so not to upset the 'poor people who just want to live their lives' by pointing out how the profit driven life worsening engine is being used to ruin lives for profit.

If people give up and allow AI bros to control the narrative, they will never let go of that control. Google have applied an AI filter to internet search, Elon has created a white nationalism filter for Twitter and a nazi version of Wikipedia, Oracle now have TikTok and an increasingly large chunk of the traditional media and Zuck has consumed the souls of everyone old enough to have voted for Reagan, we can see what they're doing and shutting up about it will only make it easier for them to get away with it.

If the past twenty years have taught us anything, it's that shutting up and accepting things only leaves the door open for worse things.