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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

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    46·
    6 hours ago

    “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.

    • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip
      1·
      1 hour ago

      People like you act like calling out downvotes immediately invalidates any reason someone might disagree with you. Unfortunately for you, you are not the arbiter of social opinions.

      I don’t think AI is, in its current form, as unethical as child labor or slavery. However, the widespread push for datacenters as a means to run AI, as well as the continued scarcification of clean drinking water (even in the ‘first world’) will likely lead to a lot of awful outcomes. We already see this with monopolization of water control across the ‘first world’, with more salient examples coming from parts of the world where water has always been scarce.

      I’m downvoting you because you’re not considering the long-term human/ecological expense of these developments (which obviously there are plenty of other issues too), not because I’m fragile.