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Uhh AI bros are promising Wall Street they're going to eliminate wages while telling us we're on the precipice of a workless utopia (while also being in bed wit
by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Uhh AI bros are promising Wall Street they're going to eliminate wages while telling us we're on the precipice of a workless utopia (while also being in bed with the far right who want to destroy anything resembling a social safety net.) That's not even taking into account the Theil/Yarvin/Musk/Trump/etc techno-fuedalist aspirations ("Freedom" cities)
I love the tech, and despise the people pushing it and how they want to use it. What should be used to free us from some work and allow us to focus more on human things (family, arts) and science, instead will be used to further divide and subjugate us, all in the interest of shifting more wealth and power from the working class up to those who have both in abundance.
- spwa4 9mo agoThe worst part is that AI is getting blamed for this. It's not why these things are happening. 1) Trump's spending on tax (last term) has caused a severe recession 2) Trump's recession is causing people to fire workers, BUT CEOs and ... don't want to admit it is because revenue's dropping and about to drop more, ie. because management is close to being forced to report a total disaster of a quarterly report. So no, you're fired "because AI can do your job" (meanwhile actual demonstrations of AI actually doing a single minimum-wage job ... even OpenAI "for some reason" doesn't demonstrate that) What people don't seem to get is that AI's history of overpromising and underdelivering is about 3x as long as the one for Nuclear Fusion.