Post #142982
2026-01-19 05:32 UTC
Replies (12)
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@acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2026-01-19 06:52
the sad thing is we *should* be excited to replace human beings doing monotonous work but we all know how that will go with capitalists running things.
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@ech@lemmy.ca 2026-01-19 06:32
This is something I don't see talked about enough. The real reason CEOs and corpos are so blindly committed to making this happen is because they think the end result will be a fully automated workforce that will be far cheaper and 100% under their control.
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@felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2026-01-19 05:56
This guy has pithy and informed takes imho
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-01-19 12:02
Only the psychopaths and narcissicists we enabled into power.
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@maegul@lemmy.ml 2026-01-19 07:29
Generally, IMO, everything wrong with AI has been all the stuff other than the AI itself. The Capitalist urge to eat and digest the world, as well as its herd-hype mentality. But also the strong willingness many have had to just accept an information overlord as though it’s a religious oracle or something. All without any critical consideration of what’s happening. I blame our education systems for stagnating at some point in the past few decades — which, along with an unmitigated embrace of big corp capitalism, left us wholly unprepared for big tech’s consumption of society. There’s also what I’d call “the slavery urge” at play I think. At some point, an AGI will probably be conscious. But everyone is clearly so ready to turn it into our work slaves. All while pretending its output belongs to them because they “prompted it”. Then there’s the whole attention span being eaten thing, and quick always being ordered over good amongst an ever growing pile of increasingly shitty things.
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@RockBottom@feddit.org 2026-01-19 06:50
People who believe in shorter work hours through AI need to know that we need AI guillotines for that.
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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-19 17:07
Can we just vote Ed in as president please?
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@ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2026-01-19 17:30
AI truly has the capacity to topple billionaire hegemony and democratize/socialize everything. The hype we see from CEOs is a rebranding of their own fear. They want to control this tech so it doesn't erase their power, which is why they are so invested in concentrating its power in datacenters as well as seeking AGI. Concentrating power is how they control it. It's the reason they fight everything from unions to OSHA to work from home - these all undermine their power. They view AGI as the magical tool that will be hosted in a datacenter and allow them to maintain control over AI in general. They are flying too close to the sun. We are not the ones who should be afraid.
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@trolololol@lemmy.world 2026-01-19 07:16
I guess he didn't read history books about ... (flip flip) - Robots taking automotive industry in the 80, or (flip flip) - mechanisation throughout 20th century, or perhaps (flip flip) - steam machines in the 19th century Well well he seems to have never touched a history book.
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@trolololol@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 03:55
That's just idiot grifter CEOs afraid of being left behind because they believed hype in the media. Not happening in the timescale that they want, but by 2033 the trend will be easy to spot. And it will be nowhere near the current claims.
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@squaresinger@lemmy.world 2026-01-19 21:03
Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit. A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing. The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead. AI kinda fits into that department for many tasks. Low-quality translations, low-quality texts, low-quality work, all off-the-shelf and ill-fitting but cheap and mass-produced.
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@verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2026-01-19 18:33
people neolibs are excited to replace human beings neolibs != people