Replying to an earlier post

Americans are seeing the actual repercussions of those massive data centers being forced into their communities and stealing their water and power first hand. They’re being force to use that trash at work and then fix their constant fuckups on shorter time-frames than they used to be given to build the thing normally - because executives are the ones slurping up the actual propaganda that LLMs are actually useful for much of anything. They’re the ones being fired because their bosses think a probabilistic word generator can replace a thinking human.

Replying to @⁨CosmoNova@lemmy.world⁩

Lots of inconclusive data IMO.

Yeah… Aggregation makes this kind of useless. Like, there are many reasons why AI could be good or bad, and many dimensions along which you could trust or distrust it. Mashing it all together without asking the “why” you think a think makes it kind of meaningless, especially given that exposure to it and education on how it works are going to be wildly different by region.

Replying to @⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩

The American stock market is disproportionately inflated by AI. Without it, the recession would be evident. When number go up, people keep jobs. When numbers go down, unaffected management lays people off just in case.

Also, no worker protections, boss could decide tomorrow you’ve been replaced with an AI. Whether it works or not is his problem but feeding yourself and family remains yours.

Replying to @⁨CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

The AI industry is:

  1. Propping up our entire economy and retirement savings
  2. removing our ability to buy electronics of any kind
  3. designed to replace workers without a safety net
  4. Designed to watch us all and filter our informarion

So, with the fascist government’s help, they’re building a giant pantopticon while taking away our information freedom, while they siphon away whatever wealth we have until we can’t live anymore, under the threat of total and permanent annihilation if we make it fail.

Yeah, they’re turning the whole country into a concentration camp. If they keep power, expect Border controls. Why do you think ICE gets more money than all other agencies?

Replying to @⁨4am@lemmy.zip⁩

  1. Propping up our entire economy and retirement savings

It’s not “propping up the economy”. The stock market is not the economy. If anything, AI is dragging the actual economy down further.

designed to replace workers without a safety net

It’s not really capable of that except in a few tasks. For programmers, a lot of companies have overhired over Covid and have been looking for excuses to downsize without looking bad to investors, especially with the economy in recession. AI is mainly a convenient excuse for that

Replying to @⁨BitsAndBites@lemmy.world⁩

my theory: i feel like the first wave of any product is overhyped and has less accountability to deliver.

"Hoverboards (2015) The “self-balancing scooter” became a global sensation almost overnight, with demand skyrocketing across retail and online markets. Because manufacturers rushed to meet this sudden explosion in demand, quality control was ignored. This led to a wave of defective lithium-ion batteries that frequently overheated and caught fire, resulting in massive recalls and bans in several countries.

The Segway (2001) Before its release, the Segway was shrouded in extreme secrecy and hype, with some predicting it would “change the way cities are built.” When it finally launched, the reality didn’t match the excitement; it was too bulky for sidewalks, too slow for roads, and far more expensive than consumers were willing to pay for its actual utility. "

straight off the top of my head… Blu-ray . everyone said it was better. it triggered the need to have “the latest greatest tech” but now… i dont even know how that would have benefited me, personally. it would have been more rational if they had a more tangible benefit… like a smaller disk.

also gameboy. …however i cant think of any criticism aside from costing alot.

Replying to @⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩

Because we know precisely how psychopathic our political and business leaders are, and they are already openly hostile to the Citizens.

Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller has said that he wants to reduce the population to $100 million, about a 70% reduction. They are already looking for ways to eliminate people, they aren’t going to block any vehicle that helps achieve that objective.

Other countries are positive that their nations won’t use AI to deliberately murder much of their population. We are positive that they will.

Replying to @⁨Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world⁩

It’s the “everyone is fine with it” bit that’s the problem. The institutions that are supposed to operate as checks and balances on the ability of the president have simply have failed to do their jobs, and no one’s picking up on their behalf.

Other Western nations have had their fair share of idiot leaders, but everyone just makes fun of them, including the media, and then eventually their approval ratings drop so low they’re forced to resign, or they kicked out by their own party for the purposes of self-preservation.

It is often said that Boris Johnson was the UK’s Donald Trump, but not really because other than whatsherface no one liked Boris Johnson, he certainly didn’t have an army of sycophant idiots hanging on his every word. Everyone just laughed at him, constantly called him out on his BS, and eventually his own party turned on him, or risk getting booted out of parliament for an entire generation.