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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.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    83·
    5 days ago

    I’m not sure you can really draw a clean bright line between a “technology” and a “practice.”

    I think you could call the American practice of slavery – which required a network of infrastructure, culture, agricultural conditions and market opportunities, and government policies – a “technology.” As surely as the Internet is, anyway.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      74·
      5 days ago

      Luddites completely failed to prevent industrialisation. But through successive incremental efforts, child labour was banned in most countries.

      Trying to prevent AI is like trying to prevent factories.

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
          41·
          4 days ago

          I don’t “have to tell myself” anything. Forgive me if I misinterpreted your extremely vague reply, but it sounds like you think anyone who says that AI is going to continue to be used must be some kind of AI-hyping techbro fanboi, which is idiotic.

          I have no interest in trying to convince you that AI is likely going to remain in use, but you really need to make at least a minimal amount of effort at understanding (not agreeing with) other people’s positions, if only for the sake of your own blood pressure.

          • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            23·
            4 days ago

            But you are an AI hyping fanboi. Like, just own it man.

            I’m not that upset, either; when AI has finished tricking people into becoming dependent on it before summarily dropping them into the dark pit of unemployment, I will be one of the few remaining capable of doing any work.