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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
    7·
    6 hours ago

    Hard disagree. There was a pod I was listening to where the argument was AI is akin to the farming revolution. A coworker this week said the steam engine may be valid too.

    The point is, AI is a train roaring down the tracks. You can’t stop it. You might be able to slow it down at best but it’s here and it’s heading in the direction of the future.

    The worst thing you can do is dig in your heels and pretend the train away. I acknowledge the train and will use the train but it concerns me.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        4·
        1 hour ago

        The people down voting fundamentally disagree with the axiom that AI is akin to the farming evolution. If you disagree on it being the future then the whole argument falls apart. That’s the whole center of the disagreement between AI tech bros and those of us trying to stop it

        • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 hour ago

          I think too many people are too dug in on the fallacy that real value isn’t being generated by AI. It is. I see it every day at work.

          I get that it’s scary and frustrating and I get that jobs are going to be lost. We (royal) need to do better and demand better from our governments.

          I said elsewhere but the genie is out of the bottle and we can’t wish it away. You either acknowledge that and want to build a sustainable future with it, or you are a luddite digging in their heels on a lost cause.

          Back to the farming analogy on the pod he explained that it was a similar groundswell of protest because jobs were disappearing and people were rightly up in arms. But here we are 100+ years later. The jobs never came back. Tractors are here to stay.

          • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
            3·
            1 hour ago

            There’s been a lot of studies showing that people think they’re being more productive and improving things with AI when in fact they aren’t. Your perceived value runs counter to the actual data.

            Anecdotally I see the opposite of you. Nothing but slop pull requests and mountains of more work being churned out that I have to spend all my time sifting through. Literally draining value away.

    • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I really dislike people who say “hard disagree”.

      It’s the worst tick of internet discourse. Announcing your contrarianism.

      I’m pretty sure that their disagree is, in fact, soft and they are a little ashamed of it.

      So they tell us it is hard whilst trying to thumb their disagree in.

    • musicjunkie@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      So Reddit and lemmy have a lot of people with WFH jobs probably paying hookie for what little responsibilities they do have and their jobs are first on the chopping block as AI continues to take over which is why it’s the only place in society you are negative sentiment towards AI

      Going online and being positive about AI is like going to a horse barn to brag about your Model T