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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

  • 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.