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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.
Compering technologies with ways of living, aren’t we?
Yes AI is crap now.
Yes it is driven by oligarchs who want all the pie for themselves.
Yes it is a bubble.
Yes it is over-hyped and presented as the holy grail.
Yes it fucks our planet.
But it is a new technology that its gonna get integrated in our lives.
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Well until we make an AGI and it fucks us all.
Now people watch their phone while eating and the public discourse is filled with their algorithm infused opinions.
Globalisation took care of the rest. Children still work, slaves still exist, but not visible to us.
AI can be hidden but not prevented.
Have you guys seen Reddit lately? It’s nothing but bots and AI. Its such a weird time.
I find it ironic that every top comment author seems to feel the urge to point out why it’s actually different, but never question the point. I’m also sick of people telling me there’s no turning back, like, yeah, you do you, bro. My life is great without social networks, which are not going anywhere I guess.
My theory is that eventually there is going to be so much ai slop on the web all ai will inevitably stop working and the whole thing will collapse
This article assumes the person in the first panel wouldn’t want the 3 panels to not still be the case.
Yes I remember when endorsed slavery, child labour and smoking indoors - I was such an idiot
https://futurism.com/data-centers-financial-bubble
The massive investments being made aren’t economically viable.
“what you all sound like”
* Equates AI to slave trade and child labor. *
There’s something funky here pot and kettle wise, because “AI is here to stay” and “oH my GaaahhhwwD it’s an AI sLOP” are two sides of the same annoying coin.
Leave your fragile downvotes from both camps wherever there is space and chill out already.
“Leaded gasoline is already there, there’s no going back.”
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id say the head over heels visceral hatred of ai is more common than any sort of praise. not sure who “all” means.
Smoking indoors, child labor and slavery are all still here, just transformed and under a different coat of paint
While there are landlords, there will be landlord specials.
no where as celebrated as bragging openly.
Can you elaborate?
- smoking indoors is done a lot via electronic cigarettes which produce no noticeable smoke
- slavery is still widely practiced through a loophole; in many countries it’s legal if it’s part of prison work, and many big corporations “rent” convicts for cheap
- child labor is also still very active in certain countries, which many western companies outsource their work to
Fair point on the last one, and also the second one if you’re from the U.S. But cigarettes being replaced with vapes, and being banned from many places (like airplanes for example, or whole countries like Sweden recently) does not fit into the picture. Second hand smoke and stink is severely reduced with the bans.
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