Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
“Daddy daddy, what do you think the future will be like?”
“Oh I think it will be wonderful: flying cars, more understanding of our neighbors, space travel, cures for diseases!”
The future: fascists, racist robots, more fascists, bombing civilians, cutting science funding, the earth is on fire, more fascists, cutting HIV study funding, more racist robots, gutting artistic employment, fried donuts.
I guess it’s not all terrible, just mostly.
I remember the 90s early 2000s when it felt like we were sort of all going in the right direction and technology would help build a better future.
But then again, history always goes in cycles and it would be reasonable to expect information technology to (initially?) lead to really bad outcomes, just with industrialization and WW1/WW2.
It took the horrors of the two world wars for people to get out of their stupor.
90’s Internet: would you like to play chess with someone from across the globe? You could learn about their culture and how much you have in common!
Users: no thanks, I’m busy making racist videos using this energy hungry AI tool.
TBH, everything always goes to crap when the powers that be defund education. Lack of historical understanding always leads to the same result.
I honestly kind of hate that I grew up in the 90s… Born mid 80s and was old enough in the 90s to have my childhood engrained with this idea that the future was all progress from there on out. Then the 2000s come along with a big ol’ middle finger and it’s just been fascists all the way down and economic decline from there. :/
We were going in that direction with too much trust and enthusiasm.
Then humongous corps played along to these emotions, while building something that wasn’t considered normal in the rest of the economy for many decades.
OK, honestly I’m tired of this shit, I think I’m going to start making toys of my own making in some scripting language to illustrate how it should work, not thinking about real world use. I’ve made one, I won’t show it to anyone, but the fact that it worked at all is nice, I guess.
I couldn’t force myself try starting on the latest idea, because it involves too much instances of “probably need something like”. Maybe I should just assume those parts as unreliable good-trust connections, as it was done with most of the real web model.
Oh boy donuts
TikTok. I’ve long suspected the name of the app references the fact that we are so close to midnight.
The next update is going to be interesting…
Engagement!
Racists watch them because they agree with them. Anti-racists hate watch them to know what the racists are up to.
I’m starting to think the only way to combat this is to relentlessly flood all social media with the worst bigoted content that can be made for all races and genders. the “nuclear option”.
maybe once people have their fill we shove some more down their throats and these platforms will start to moderate their content better.
No, techbros will just find some way to make that profitable and then we’re stuck with it forever
TikTok.
You mean the app that bent the knee to a felon rapist and destroys user’s ability to focus on anything for more than 20 seconds?
Those are pretty racist…
Jesus.
No kidding, damn.
NGL, the “zesty bark bark and meow meow” got me… Am I a bad person?
The cop with a fish rod and a watermelon
It should be taught at schools that there is no such thing as human race, it’s a fucking disgracing non-scientific term. Skin color is just that - a skin color.
How hard is it to just make anti racist AI videos and then just flood TikTok with that?
I mean it’ll thin out the amount of racist trash, makes the chances smaller that people get confronted with that shit and then fall for it’s bullshit message
Do you think the audience for these videos will find those videos funny? If so, go for it. Otherwise, it’ll be totally ineffective.
I don’t know, don’t care either. If racists cat get AI videos to rank, it can’t be that hard to rank non hateful videos, or maybe even videos that hate on racists
Easier to blame and hate than to reflect and improve.
lmao
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well it’s TikTok. Nothing but brainrot on there. Just get off the platform if you value human thought.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
To be honest that would be more Instagram, where I’ve seen people get shown exclusively meme videos with audio quickly and constantly repeating the n-word
thedruid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mine is full of nature picks and guitars.
Pretty big difference in experience