Post #332043

2026-02-17 03:09 UTC

This is something that probably sounds obvious to some folks and unhinged to others, but I think it’s worth saying anyway: “workers who don’t adopt AI will get left behind” is right-wing propaganda. It’s more than just a surface-level advertising message. It makes the unstated assumption that workers are all in a state of conflict, racing against one another in competition for acceptable employment. This is the literal opposite of class consciousness! All workers should be aiming for a world where we don’t have to fight each other to earn a chance at a decent life.

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@jnkrtech@social.treehouse.systems 2026-02-17 03:18

Highly-trained LLMs are a form of capital. They are produced by extracting knowledge from text which workers have made, and they cannot be made practically useful without vast compute expenditures. The companies which make them seek to recoup their costs by renting them out, primarily to corporations which want to use them to reduce the number of workers which they employ. The facts are straightforward, and the net effect is a wealth transfer from workers to owners. Current attempts at producing large-scale social or economic transformations via generative AI are an unavoidably right-wing political project.

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@zrb@social.hildebrind.space 2026-02-17 05:57

@jnkrtech we should do the opposite of fight. Unite, even.

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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social 2026-02-17 16:10

@jnkrtech "Workers who don't adopt mechanical looms and spinning machines will be left behind'. No workers said "Cool, I want to work in a dark, satanic mill, where I'll go deaf and die early of lung disease". Ned Ludd was right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

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@JSCybersec@infosec.exchange 2026-02-17 16:34

@jnkrtech :1000:

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@RoboticistDuck@mas.to 2026-02-17 22:11

@jnkrtech thank you for sharing your well-worded perspective on such an important topic.

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@alethenorio@fosstodon.org 2026-02-17 22:26

@jnkrtech unfortunately that's not how reality works though. Ultimately, in competitive markets, underperformers will be at a risk of losing their jobs. And while there are many who perform just fine without these kinds of tools, it is looking like LLMs are raising the performance bar across the board meaning those using them will just have an advantage over many others who choose not to.

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@TorrentialRains@mastodon.social 2026-02-18 09:57

@jnkrtech Also, using AI prevents one from learning, and erodes what skill one already has. Even in a competition using them is a bad idea.

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@onekind@beige.party 2026-02-18 10:48

@jnkrtech I really appreciate this perspective ✊

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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-18 15:44

@jnkrtech - "Comrades! Let us fight against our common enemy!" - "The public servants!" - "NO!!! The Capitalist!!!"

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@cy@fedicy.us.to 2026-02-23 18:23

All people should be aiming for that world! All people are aiming for that world! That's what class consciousness is. All we have to do is ignore a few assholes with undeniable proof we are their debt-slaves, and everyone actually does want to make things better for themselves, and for others. The belief in debt is the only thing that's stopping us.

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