I am ethically and morally opposed to gen AI as a concept. As far as the breaking point, let me explain. I’ve been a machinist for ~18 years. It’s been really bad for the last 9 years and I’ve more or less had to live off of savings from the good years (those savings are basically gone).
I’ve just recently gotten legitimate job offers for ~$125 an hour remote because I own a CNC. The catch is that I have to record all of the CAM programming and machine time in order to train an AI to replace potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.
This fucking sucks. I’d love to sit on my ass forever at 43, but I absolutely fucking hate the potential that I could bring that would crush the working class and elevate the owning class.
I wish it wasn’t this hard, because I really do believe in socialism and have labored hard for a long time to make it happen - but there’s a chance I can put everything I have into true anarchism cause and make a legitimate difference.
Please help.
That’s a cool comment from an alternate universe where there is both a strong social consensus and sufficient strike funds to wage labour action against the use of AI for work. Sounds nice over there.
Of course you should resist. I would prefer it if OP wouldn’t sell out his data for AI training, but I can’t reasonably demand that he would rather become destitute than support AI. Especially if he is dying on this hill farily alone.
While there may be popular opposition against AI datacenters, the same can not be said for the encroachment of AI on society in general. Many of the people we would need for a mass anti-AI movement are compromised by “convenient” chatbots or income based on the AI bubble. This will not be the case forever, but you need to realize when the cultural force is not behind you and shape your resistance accordingly. Right now that may mean, lay low, consolidate your allies, persuade people, and be ready for when this stupid doomed technofash project collapses under its own weight.
I live without AI perfectly fine but gaslight away. So do the people in my life. Plenty of them have jobs where they never use AI because they never used AI and always resisted it and so don’t have to. I’ve seen it with my eyes, you’re just weak and scared of living without AI
My guy/gal/goyle, I do in fact not use LLMs. Avoid them like the plague and encourage everyone I know to do the same. I also use Linux, self-host, own a non-Android/Apple phone, and (most shamefully) post on the threadiverse. I am also aware that the averagely IT-savvy person would have no fucking clue what any of that means.
If your circle is tech-progressive, I am happy for you. But maybe go read a statistic about general AI adoption, and have a think what it would take to move the needle on public opinion there. I agree that slop bros need some shaming, but coming off preachy and elitist doesn’t do us any good.