Post #1725501
2026-04-27 15:54 UTC
Replies (25)
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@cyberwitch@goingdark.social 2026-04-28 03:06
@joelle@social.joelle.us its wild that to avoid the bargaining power of workers they will accept the much more substantial bargaining power of enshittified tech giants
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 18:10
@joelle Sure, that's what the corpos are after. But the nation state superpowers that have made this project "too big to fail" have something a little different in mind....
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@gnaddrig@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 18:36
@joelle @Lazarou Ironic that the first companies are complaining that their AI costs start exceeding their personnel cost...
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@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca 2026-04-27 19:20
@joelle So much this. . And I'd love to see some data on how space exploration has helped accessibility vs "AI."
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@oz1sej@mastodon.online 2026-04-27 20:44
@joelle This is what we all wanted - machines to do the work, so we dont have to. As Arthur C. Clarke said it, "In the future, the goal will be full unemployment - so we can play." It does, however, require a universal basic income, and a heavy taxation of the companies that no longer need human labour.
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2026-04-27 20:45
@joelle Anyone, any company, any poster any account that pushes #AI is contemptible and signaling a desire to be cancelled. Cancel AI - in all forms, on all platforms, by any person. #AI
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@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science 2026-04-27 21:45
@joelle #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why #wankers love 💕 it *so much*! #Resist #AIslop.
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@ayilathebailey@blahaj.zone 2026-04-27 22:33
@joelle@social.joelle.us "Machines do the work; people should do the thinking." AI ruins all those four things. Clearly.
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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 23:43
@joelle It's in every tech bro manifesto, too. (Although they usually phrase it as "abundance for all and not having too work", which is just a Big Lie.)
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@idlestate@toot.cat 2026-04-28 00:04
@joelle I find "it's a capital strike" explanation compelling. And also compatible with this point.
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@qgustavor@urusai.social 2026-04-28 01:45
@joelle if it was for helping the disabled there would be great projects that would have succeeded, like Project Naptcha. The only thing that went ok from that project is Tesseract.js, the accessibility part of it still doesn't work.
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@dyckron@cosocial.ca 2026-04-28 02:12
@joelle also dovetails nicely with extended fossil fuel fascism!
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@Quasit@kolektiva.social 2026-04-28 03:47
@joelle And after that 9/10ths of the human race will crawl quietly away and die politely in a ditch with their children, well out of sight. A happy ending for billionaires everywhere!
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@riley@toot.cat 2026-04-28 05:50
@joelle Which means, it's likely more fruitful to attack the LLMbros' extravagant promises on the "it doesn't work" front than on the "it's unethical" front.
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@fellmoon@bsd.network 2026-04-28 06:38
@joelle yes, but... Isn't that basically the selling point of automation since...forever?
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@elettrona@poliversity.it 2026-04-28 07:19
@joelle @elena And in the end? The huge mistakes llm's make, force companies to employ humans again, to correct them
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@burnitdown@beige.party 2026-04-28 09:07
@joelle we have always been worth more to the employing class dead than alive. they're the same people who only see value in a forest after it has been cut down and turned into toothpicks.
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@chojzina@kolektiva.social 2026-04-28 09:44
@joelle This is the part that most fascinates me. If they don't employ workers, these workers have no money. People without money don't buy their shit, and no amount of cost cutting helps if you don't sell your shit. It literally happened before and is called "The Great Depression". But their greed has them convinced it won't happen to them.
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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-04-28 12:21
@joelle@social.joelle.us A true sign that western economies have moved away from innovation to rent-seeking: they don't want to be able to do more, they want to have better margins on what they're already doing.
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@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de 2026-04-28 13:07
@joelle When hearing about such corpo fantasies I always wonder who'll gonna buy all their products and services if no one gets paid. Of course they think they'd be the only one with this competitive edge.
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@morgan@sfba.social 2026-04-28 13:40
@joelle the purpose of a system is what it does.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-04-28 16:18
@joelle There's a funny part in that. Being ignorant they've clearly not realized that there are a number of tasks which simply cannot be done without thinking people. (How they somehow avoided every currently existing service degradation observable to the average person is quite the curiosity.) Whether they get rid of humans and get to use digital sentience (people too) instead (good luck, we have no idea how to make this) or not, the end-result is the same and there is no particular reason for one to comply with one's exploitation.
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-04-29 03:01
@joelle The ultimate purpose of Ai is to replace humans. We have been replacing humans with machines for the last 200 years. How does that joke go? If you fall into an open manhole, it's a comedy If I fall into an open manhole, it's a tragedy
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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-05-01 12:06
@joelle Really what they want are slaves, but they're not allowed to do that anymore and AI seems like the next best thing. Heavy emphasis on the "seems."
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@jlink@det.social 2026-05-02 17:14
@joelle A friend recently pointed to a different thing that may be worth the trillions: Having complete control over the information for the masses and thereby their opinions and beliefs. Putting all people out of work is incompatible with capitalism, controlling their beliefs is very compatible with capitalism and consumption.