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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Calling people against the current incarnation of AI “luddites” is a gross mischaracterization.

  I’m glad that you seem to have at least completely given up the pretense that this will somehow benefit society.

  Im telling you that again that the jobs that AI makes are orders of magnitude fewer, and far less fulfilling.
  I’m telling you again that the impact goes way beyond corpo art jobs.

  But youre refusing to listen, or even put up a reasonable defense, you’re just reiterating your previous completely unsupported assertion in really suspicious ways.

  Nobody is trying to argue the feasibility of stopping the change, we’re saying the change is bad. The argument that the change is inevitable therefore it is good (or that at least we shouldn’t be upset by it) is crazy

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know if it’s that different from the real life luddites. Maybe the word has a different connotation in where you live, I don’t know, but I did mean it in a slight negative but mostly meaning “workers against the change”.

    I think it might benefit society, but I don’t think I’ve ever been optimistic about that. I think things in general will keep getting worse.

    I don’t know how I was saying the change is good or what was suspicious about what I said, I guess that’s more meta conversation but if you don’t mind I’d like to know

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Luddites were against automated looms because they thought it’d destroy the careers in the industry.
      They were right, it’s just that working a loom was a small enough part of the economy that it didn’t really matter.
      AI is like that, except for every creative or technical career in every industry. It promises to replace all jobs where people are provided creative or intellectual challenge. Nearly every middle class job. Assuming that LLM providers can actually deliver on their promises. But why do we even want to allow them to try?

      The owner class gets the lions share of the benefits and none of the drawbacks. The middle class gets almost no benefits, meanwhile their wages get suppressed and the job market gets wrecked.
      Even if you’re right and this will create new industries, which I’m skeptical of, displaced workers need to retrain at their own expense. How many people, in the middle of their careers and with families, can afford to just start again in a new industry with entry level salaries? And do you know how tough it is for an older person to advance in a new career?
      And even then, even if people could afford to switch careers mid-life; where are those careers? Those hypothetical new industries are going to take decades to mature let alone to even be created in the first place. How much unemployment do you think the economy can stand up to for decades?

      It’s suspicious because you seems like you have a vested interest in AI or in making AI appear positive.
      You seem to be framing AI as good for us normal folks, and that the only people at risk are those who do shitty work. That there is some kind of benefit for people to have and that the risk is so negligible that it’s fine.
      But it’s frustrating because you can’t seem to describe these benefits, or why the risks are negligible, or even worth it. You just keep steadfastly asserting that it’s ok. So where is this conviction coming from and what is the motivation to continue to assert it?

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s just that I really doubt anything can be really done about the advance of AI. Either it fizzles out or it actually delivers, and if it seems like it will deliver you won’t get people putting that genie back in the bottle. It’s just going to happen because there could be so much potential there, if it delivers.

        It’s suspicious because you seems like you have a vested interest in AI or in making AI appear positive.

        You seem to be framing AI as good for us normal folks, and that the only people at risk are those who do shitty work. That there is some kind of benefit for people to have and that the risk is so negligible that it’s fine.

        You have a weird reading of my comments, no offense. I think you’re so upset at AI that anyone not being as hostile you take as positive and pro-AI. It happens, especially online, I wouldn’t worry about it too much, but it can just make discussion hard.

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