• naught101
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    2 months ago

    AI is exactly as bad as mechanised weaving looms.

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      2 months ago

      You mean it’s going to outsource the labour to children in third world countries?

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      2 months ago

      i’m pro-AI (with huuuuge caveats) but i disagree with this… AI reduces certain jobs in a similar way, but it also enables large scale manipulation and fucks with our thought processes on a large scale

      i’d say it’s like if a mechanised weaving loom also invented the concept of disinformation and propaganda

      … but also, mechanised weaving loom effected a single industry: modern ML has the potential to effect the large majority of people: it’s on a different scale than the disruption of the textile industry

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        2 months ago

        Agree it’s on a different scale (everything is relative to 200 years ago).

        One of the main “benefits” of mechanised factory machinery in the early 1800s was that shifted the demand side of labour, such that capitalists had far more control over it. I reckon that counts as a kind of large scale manipulation (but yeah, probably not as pervasive of other domains of life).

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      2 months ago

      you do realize mechanized looms were used to put people out of jobs and very very very clearly harm them, right? this isn’t an argument in favour of AI, it’s an argument against it.