What’s hard to comprehend about my comment?
Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoDon’t be an ass and realize that ai is a great tool for a lot of people. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You are insulting a person, because they said ai helps them.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They really did that themselves.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You hate ai or not, maybe you just found one more excuse to be an asshole online, don’t know, don’t care, bye.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
It’s not hard to comprehend. It’s that we literally have jackasses like Sam Altman arguing that if they can’t commit copyright violations at an industrial scale and pace that their business model falls apart. Yet, we’re still nailing regular people for piracy on an individual scale.
If the benefits of this technology were evenly distributed the argument might have a leg to stand on, but it is never evenly distributed. It is always used as a way to pay professionals less for work that is “just okay.”
When a business buys the tools to use generative AI and they shitcan employees to afford it they have effectively used those employees labor against them to replace them with something lesser. Their labor was exploited to replace them. The people who actually deserve the bonus of generative AI are losing or being expected to be ten times more productive instead of being allowed to cool their heels because they worked hard enough to have this doohickey work for them. No, it’s always “line must go up, rich must get richer, fuck the laborers.”
I’ll stop being an ass about it when people stop burning employees out who already work hard or straight up fire them and replace them with this bullshit when their labor is what allowed the business to afford this bullshit to begin with.
I don’t have a problem with technology that makes our lives easier. I don’t have a problem with copyright violations (copyright as it exists is broken. It still needs to exist, just not in its current form).
What I have a problem with is businesses using this as an excuse to work their employees like slaves or replacing the employees that allowed them to afford these tools with these tools.
When everyone who worked hard to afford this stuff gets a paid vacation for helping to afford the tools and then comes back to an easier workload because the tools help that much, I’ll stop being a fucking ass about it.
Like I said elsewhere, the bottom line is business owners want a slave that doesn’t need things like sleep, food, emotional support, and never pushes back against being abused. I’m tired of people pretending like it’s not what businesses want. I’m tired of people pretending this does anything except make already overworked employees bust even more ass.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Your comment is on capitalism, not scaling ai or ai being used with effect.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
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If you can’t see how the two are inextricably tied together, I don’t know what to tell you.
This reeks of “keep politics out of our video games” kind of shit. They’re not actually separate issues.
torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Nah bro, you were in an argument about wether or not AI can be a useful tool only to then pivot to a meta argument about ethics (which I agree with btw). But something can be a useful tool and unethical at the same time so your line of argument is nonsense.