Comment on The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
AI has mostly been a financial boon for the country, buoying the stock market and driving growth.
Gosh, speak for the billionaires, why don’t you? My finances, and the finances of everyone I know, have most certainly not seen any improvement. If anything, it’s getting actively worse, in ways that this very article acknowledges. All for a technology none of us want. And yet the writer still feels the need to pretend things are good because the S&P 500’s doing well, as if that means shit fuck all for the rest of us. Go figure that as usual “the economy is doing great” is shorthand for “wealth inequality is going up.”
I’m sick and tired of hearing this misleading concept, I’m going to vent for a second: Most people do not have large stock market investments! They are too busy paying rent! What’s good for the rich isn’t what’s good for me, and I do not fucking care about the goddamn NASDAQ!
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I have an internal morality, economy, and democracy check:
Does Steve Bannon, Steve Miller, or Russell Vought think it’s a good idea? If yes, it’s terrible and will hurt everything and everyone but them.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Eh, “anti-AI” isn’t that. Bannon’s doing a different tactic here: Pretending you believe in something good so that people are more likely to listen your batshit insanity at other times.