• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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.

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      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?

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        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

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    “People who live on a volcano are more worried about it erupting than the rest of the world.”

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        Not to fret!

        I am the guardliest guardrail of volcano stopping super stoppers and MAGMA, that’s just a letter away from maga which, you know, is really a guard AGAINST the crazy radical left antifa volcano supporting dummycrats… And that’s why POTATO.

        ~some orange guy.

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    Probably because most of the world still has ethics and humanity.

    Our country is just greedy, mentally ill, sociopaths in charge and everyone is fine with it

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    We have way fewer consumer and worker safeguards, not to mention seemingly unrestricted political ads. All the use of AI to imitate political candidates has been very dystopian.

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    I was excited about AI until American billionaires forcefully shoved it down our throats and every company started drooling and putting AI “features” (bugs) everywhere.

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      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.

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    A country with a service based economy is allowing tech bros and billionaires to ram a new technology down the throats of the entire population with little to no oversight. People have already lost jobs because of layoffs after their company replaced them with ai. Americans are worried about their livelihood and the dangers the data centers pose to their communities.

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    It’s because we have the worst possible people to steward us though this transition that is being forced on us.

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      Zero protections for employees paired with the fact most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck while the C suite keeps firing people to pay for their AI adoption. I understand why Americans are concerned.

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    Lots of inconclusive data IMO. Seem cherry picked in a lot of ways. The most interesting bit to me was that a study conducted by Microsoft acknowledges Palestine as a country. Genuinely surprised me.

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      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.

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    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.

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    Because we like to let things cause serious, widespread, irreparable harm before we even think about standing up to the rich.

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      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.

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        its the massive layoffs, AI has been causing the layoffs for like 3 years already. now we see people even complaining about the universities they graduating from.

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        We’re saying the same thing, it’s too much slop to replace and now they’re lowkey rehiring because they wanted to replace us and are now using “safety” as their excuse for a product that’s mid