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With GenAI being used primarily as a cudgel against labor, especially organized labor, it's a pretty accurate take.
AI is a tool.
A tool that is being used wrong left and right because of hype.
Where it works it works, and where it doesn't it will break away again.
There are many issues with AI and how it gets it's data, etc. Yes.
And how too many people treat it makes them to me sound like the monks who complained that the book printing press is killing the soul of books which have to be hand written.
The way many here argua against AI is not logical bit emotional and it sucks
In a world not dominated by unfettered capitalism, sure. That's not the one that we live in however and this tool has both been built on stolen and unlicensed intellectual property as well as being used explicitly to harm people's livelihoods while replacing their work with objectively inferior plagiaristic amalgams.
AI companies also refuse to obey the rules of the Internet and continually DDOS sites that request crawlers and scrapers not do so, necessitating creation of whole new types of software to defend against their malicious behavior.
And on top of all that, they have substantially increased greenhouse gas emissions and are actively consuming potable water in a manner that makes Nestlé execs hard. Putting the planet's biosphere at greater risk and unnecessarily increasing water scarcity.
Nah. Simping for AI companies is the irrational take. The value that they provide to humanity is, outside of some niche use cases, marginal at best and will likely never come close to making up for the harms that they are causing to humanity for a quick buck and to increase worker oppression.
Amazing, everything you just said is wrong! Not a single valid argument. But that's usual for luddites
Feel like supporting this statement?
Not really.You know you're repeating nonsense
If you've any shed of evidence to disprove established fact, please share it. Otherwise, jog on, mate.
you've not shared any established facts, you've regurgitated luddite bollocks, so I don't really think that's a valid response. But you know that, d0on't you?
Prove it. I'm sure you can find some reputable sources to bank your claims.
Maybe you ought to also better understand that comparing one to people who stood up against exploitation isn't really an insult. Just like the Rednecks were those fighting for the working class when they were gunned down by rent-a-cops with machine guns at Blair Mountain.
What luddies were or were not is not really relevant to the fact that the term now means someone opposed to new technology for spurious reasons, which describes you perfectly
TIL: Accelerating global climate change, increasing depletion of available reserved of potable water through use of open-loop cooling, intentionally eroding the ability of people to support themselves by using their own works to compete with them without license or consent to do so, and passing all economic gains upwards, with no financial benefit realized by people doing the actual work is "spurious".
Your claim is that "everything" that I previously stated was factually incorrect and have provided exactly nothing but ad hominem attacks to "prove" your point. So, are you going to backup your claims at all, or are you just approaching this in bad faith to troll or reinforce your pseudo-religious faith in LLMs (which will never be sentient nor save us from the problems that they are contributing to).
Yeah those things are either not happening or your ire is directed at the wrong place because you want to blame the new thing for existing problems. Generative AI is a tool, nothing more. A knife can be used to cook dinner or stab people but you're not dead-set against knives because they're older than you and therefore fine