Cindʎ Xiao 🍉 89642d ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116749455911829582

Once again, "it's useful for programming" is being used as cover, to justify the continued existence of this company and industry.

The money that we pay toward coding assistants extends the runway this industry has, to continue positioning itself as "indispensable" and "inevitable", while destroying labour rights, open knowledge, and the environment in the meantime. That money is actually critical for that runway, because coding assistants are one of the only high-margin products these companies have.

Programmers don't like to think about this, and like to pretend that this technology is neutral and that we can use it regardless of the underlying ideology. This is completely burying our heads in the sand.

I'm just not interested in participating in any of this.

#noAI

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@cxiao Why does this also feel like it's a massive backdoor being shoved into everything. (See eg; Indian surveillance smartphone app that thankfully got quashed, North Korean OS, etc.) #surveillance
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@z3r0fox @cxiao 'cause it is. Look at the palantr manifesto. They pretty much state they're trying to change soft power into hard power to control us all. They want a dissenting tweet to automatically disable purchasing power; to algorithmically corral us.