Yeah, but internet was for the people for decades.
(And it didn’t really cost nature as much. Or stolen from the people so much - even by current laws illegally.)
“AIs” are getting their enshitification & monopolies pre-baked into from the start.
American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also the AI could automate away that man’s hobby…
anachrohack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think there is no possible world where people are without meaningful work and are happy about it. Even if they collected $10,000 a month and got to spend all of their time doing hobbies and spending time with family, it would feel pointless and hollow. Why have a family? Why raise children? Why do anything if there’s no struggle, if you’re not the one providing for your kids? I think if AI replaces humans in the workplace, even with UBI, humans would cease to exist shortly thereafter as our lives will have become meaningless
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I think there is no possible world where people are without meaningful work and are happy about it.
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Even if they collected $10,000 a month and got to spend all of their time doing hobbies and spending time with family, it would feel pointless and hollow.
What is the difference between “hobby” and “work” if not what random people decide what is better monetised?
Both is labour & value added.
In a world where everyone gets enough money people could do what they actually want. So a CEO wouldn’t be “stuck” being a CEO if they don’t like that job & would rather be eg a baker. In the current system bcs of a huge pay divergence you get an unhappy CEO (who ofc won’t quit) and an unhappy baker that just couldn’t get a more suited paying job.
But we as a society would get a lot more out of life & cultural progression if people would be happy & satisfied at what they do (job=hobby).
Empirical evidence (even USA did extensive tests in the 60s) show that given a universal income (so basically no scarcity) basically nobody just sits around watching TV all day, everyone is productive (research, art, services, etc).
Imagine only having customer support or food industry workers that truly enjoy their job & want to do it.
Labour is what we all benefit from.
Work is what the employer/owner benefits from.echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Okay let’s do an experiment.
Get some annoying trust fund kid, take all their money away from them, and tell them that they now have to get a job but it’s a good thing because now their life has meaning. Let’s see how happy they are about it.
jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
You’re so right, how can I find meaning without making somebody else’s money for them? Woe is me…
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Nothing like comparing a technology that took more than 10 years to get “released in the wild” and had several “killer apps” built using it very early on (email, instant messaging, web pages, online games) and many companies had no idea how to get money with it, vs. a “content generator” that is run almost entirely on promises of increased productivity and profit.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
Search sucks now, LLMs are useful. Not as useful as tech companies claim it to be but yeah, most people will use it at some point.
LWD@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That’s because search engines have reached the stage of enshittification where they no longer need to be good. Instead, they want you to spend as much time there as possible.
LLMs are still being sold as “the better option” - including by the exact same search giants who intentionally ruined their own search results. And many of them are already prioritizing agreeableness over “truthfulness.” And we’re still in the LLM honeymoon phase, where companies are losing billions of dollars on a yearly basis and undercharging their users.
oh_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exactly. It will be ruined eventually when the shareholders come knocking wanting profitability.
Tamo240@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
This is something I think the ‘you have to use LLMs or you’re falling behind’ crowd are missing. Of course these companies want you to become dependent on their product, and unable to complete basic tasks without it, because then when they slap you with monthly fees and ads and tokens you won’t have a choice but to pay.
Use them if they’re useful, but don’t out source your brain. You’ll need it when the enshittification begins.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The two aren’t equivalent. One of them is an actual proven technology that definitively exists, the other one is still to prove itself.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It helps write emails and reviews and edits resumes. I have very little other use for it.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
hope you proofread those emails, least you send part of a romance novel that the AI hallucinated into being.
theherk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It also helps with tons of complex tasks in the sciences like finding new protein folding algorithms.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
the internet is actually useful and serves a purpose.
ai isn't useful at all and has no purpose.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is very useful, just only in very few circumstances. 99% of what people are shoving it into, it has no place being there, but there are some things that it legitimately just does better.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I used it to select flowers to decorate my room with. In this case, it worked out excellent. The selection was done within hours, and I created a map of my room for arranging–all on a day off work.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I like to use it to convert recipes to grams.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It is very useful and powerful as a propaganda device and a system to generate and disseminate disinformation, misinformation and non-information very quickly and very efficiently.
It was thought that the internet would do the same but that system only goes at the speed of humans and the whole system is regulated by humans … so as propaganda tool, it has worked better but not as well as predicted. Humans saw the the potential for abuse and fought back against it.
AI is like propaganda on cocaine … and there is very little to stop it other than our awareness of it … but the majority of everyone in the world don’t care to understand what they are watching is real or not. What that means is that AI is set to reshape how everyone thinks and how we all see the world.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
We already saw Grok being used for this, though rather clumsily by stuffing the prompt.
If an AI company were behind the scenes fine tuning on specific political sentiment you would never know.
In fact there’s some evidence that later ChatGPT models are more right wing biased than early models (which were accused of being left wing).
Also important to note how much social media gets fed into these things and how astroturfed modern social media is these days, so even if not explicitly biased the well has been poisoned.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve used it to learn how to read sheet music and help learn other skills I normally wouldn’t be able to.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s what they said about the internet in its infancy.
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you not self aware at all? What do you think the article is about?
rhvg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tech itself maybe. But the money, the copyright and the politics. AI is filthy.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No it doesn’t. Fuck this fake news from these genocidal scumbags.
vane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah yes 1998, the last year before matrix.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Huh I thought matrix was pretty new, and people used irc back then.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the same sentiment towards immigrants that’s seen on the right.
The media have been running the exact same headlines. It feels weirdly like the corporate run media have an agenda to show us all the horrors of AI like they will take our jobs, they are going to collapse our society, they are a threat to our children, they contribute to organized crime. Same headlines every time.
I anticipate people here will be bothered by this statement just like if you say immigration isn’t really a big problem in r/conservative. The media is insidious. But I really think it’s a good opportunity to see how it shapes public opinion.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I find the comparison pretty disgusting.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That might actually reinforce my point
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s intentional. They sensationalize to desensitize. Unlike the introduction of computers or the internet, AI will absolutely take far more jobs than it will create. Goldman Sachs predicts a 50% reduction in US jobs by 2045, and Republicans added a provision into the budget reconciliation that prohibits any regulation on AI for a decade, to ensure that prosperity goes to the corporations.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve learned of one interesting pathway from ancap to socialism long ago, as you might have guessed, through Georgism, but more generally - every finite resource that can’t be produced, like territory and laws of nature, shouldn’t be owned and should be considered common property shared by communist means. What can be produced is private property without limitations.
Thus you can own guns, tanks, jets and air carriers, but you shouldn’t be able to fully own territory and patents, because that eventually leads to legally reinforced monopoly.
I think there’s a logical connection from that to what our future looks like and how it will have to be resolved. Unless we want a caste society.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would have no problem getting anyone at r/conservative to pull up similar data points and statistics to show immigrants are taking jobs, contributing to crime statistics or any other claim. It’s very eerily similar to the emerging opinion on the left when compared to opinions on the right towards immigrants.
Regardless of validity of opinion. What I’m noticing is the role the media has played on shaping opinion and fed it.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The invention of the Internet didn’t come with realistic deepfakes, now we are in a post-truth society.
If UBI isn’t implemented, I expect there will be riots all around the world, rightfully so.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
this is about utilization so its basically about how much folks are accepting it in usage rather than just words.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
If AI gave you an accurate correct answer 99% of the time would you use it to find the answer to questions quickly?
I would. I absolutely would, the natural language search of ai feels amazing for finding the answer to a question you have.
The current problem is that its not accurate and not correct at a high enough percentage. As soon as that reaches a certain point we’re cooked and AI becomes undeniable.
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Comparing these two technologies seems somewhat silly
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Imperial media has to push some kind of garbage to distract from their ceaseless support for genocide.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Whut
breecher@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It is much more nefarious than that. It is disingenous and misleading, on purpose. These AI techbros are going to use whatever means it takes in order to spread their minddeleting slop.