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I like the top reply: > "The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."

rolandog 2mo ago
Exactly; AI is to intellectual property or skills what shell corporations are to lobbying... they're a tool that won't benefit everyone equally and is unaffordable to most people. It COULD be used for good (that's why its proponents use tone-deaf analogies comparing AI to seats on a rocket)... but we know that --- for the most part --- it WON'T be used for good... (It's already being used to spread more disinformation and to fan the flames of fascism). Technically, you could argue that shell corporations could protect journalists, but you don't see journalists destabilizing democracies by fueling dark money to alt-right groups here and there.
- ModernMech 2mo ago
  One of the very first things the government used it for when they got their hands on it was for targeting missiles, and then they promptly bombed a school full of kids. It's like Idiocracy meets Terminator.
  - esafak 2mo ago
    Because the AI relied on outdated data; it was not a hallucination.
    - archagon 2mo ago
      Was there some sort of investigation I was not aware of?
      - esafak 2mo ago
        https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...
    - majorchord 2mo ago
      source:
    - ModernMech 2mo ago
      Yeah that's the whole problem. Now the process is: take crappy data, shove it in the AI machine, and the jackboots do whatever the AI says to do. That's how the government works now, apparently. Works great for them because whenever something goes wrong they can just blame "outdated data" and move on.
- nh23423fefe 2mo ago
  human repeats bad idea.
matheusmoreira 2mo ago
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- overgard 2mo ago
  This is such a ridiculous take I hear all the time. The shitty ethics of some people do not represent the ethics of an entire profession. Most programmers are not automating people out of jobs. I've been professionally employed as a software developer for 20 years and I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Hopefully sometimes it improves their job.
  - matheusmoreira 2mo ago
    > I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Doubt. Whatever it is your app does, I bet corporations would have been forced to hire more people to do it for them, were it not for you. And there's absolutely nothing "unethical" about it either. Toil is meant to be automated away. What I can't take is programmers thinking they're somehow above this. The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved.
    - nullorempty 2mo ago
      Post scarcity society needs different operating principle. It will be a bumpy road to that after capitalism collapses.
    - overgard 2mo ago
      > The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved. Dude, this is why AI boosters scare the shit out of me. We're not moving towards a utopia, we're moving towards a dystopia. Leave me out of your shitty cult.
      - 2mo ago

rolandog 2mo ago

Exactly; AI is to intellectual property or skills what shell corporations are to lobbying... they're a tool that won't benefit everyone equally and is unaffordable to most people. It COULD be used for good (that's why its proponents use tone-deaf analogies comparing AI to seats on a rocket)... but we know that --- for the most part --- it WON'T be used for good... (It's already being used to spread more disinformation and to fan the flames of fascism). Technically, you could argue that shell corporations could protect journalists, but you don't see journalists destabilizing democracies by fueling dark money to alt-right groups here and there.

ModernMech 2mo ago
One of the very first things the government used it for when they got their hands on it was for targeting missiles, and then they promptly bombed a school full of kids. It's like Idiocracy meets Terminator.
- esafak 2mo ago
  Because the AI relied on outdated data; it was not a hallucination.
  - archagon 2mo ago
    Was there some sort of investigation I was not aware of?
    - esafak 2mo ago
      https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...
  - majorchord 2mo ago
    source:
  - ModernMech 2mo ago
    Yeah that's the whole problem. Now the process is: take crappy data, shove it in the AI machine, and the jackboots do whatever the AI says to do. That's how the government works now, apparently. Works great for them because whenever something goes wrong they can just blame "outdated data" and move on.
nh23423fefe 2mo ago
human repeats bad idea.

matheusmoreira 2mo ago

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overgard 2mo ago
This is such a ridiculous take I hear all the time. The shitty ethics of some people do not represent the ethics of an entire profession. Most programmers are not automating people out of jobs. I've been professionally employed as a software developer for 20 years and I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Hopefully sometimes it improves their job.
- matheusmoreira 2mo ago
  > I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Doubt. Whatever it is your app does, I bet corporations would have been forced to hire more people to do it for them, were it not for you. And there's absolutely nothing "unethical" about it either. Toil is meant to be automated away. What I can't take is programmers thinking they're somehow above this. The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved.
  - nullorempty 2mo ago
    Post scarcity society needs different operating principle. It will be a bumpy road to that after capitalism collapses.
  - overgard 2mo ago
    > The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved. Dude, this is why AI boosters scare the shit out of me. We're not moving towards a utopia, we're moving towards a dystopia. Leave me out of your shitty cult.
    - 2mo ago