Post #2747518

2026-05-21 20:24 UTC

i still think it holds up tbqh, ai exacerbates and concentrates many problems but it doesn’t really create new ones. content farm slop existed before ai, it’s just easier to make now. people who use ai for everything already didn’t give a shit about most things. people are still making awesome music and art. and we were already alienated. as always, the problem is capitalism

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@tyler@programming.dev 2026-05-21 20:45

Well, the new problems are the scale of things. For example if humanity had only burned a small amount of oil each year, earth would have been pretty alright, at least until the heat death of the sun. But we started burning way too much and fucked. Same here, a few people being able to create slop kinda just self regulated, but now all of humanity can do it for free and it’s incredibly destructive.

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@terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2026-05-21 20:53

Blaming capitalism is a cop out at this point. You can’t just ignore some very specific problems about a very specific technology then gesture wildly at the world and be like, “if only we didn’t have the entire system set up the way we do, if only we had a perfect economy”. Good and bad things can still happen in capitalism. You can’t just throw up your hands and say “capitalism” when rat poison ends up in baby food. Regulation can still exist in capitalism and has a proven track record to work. You don’t have to replace the entirety of your economic system to prevent AI data centers from being built.

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