• grumpy_cat@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    1 hour

    Just start buying AI from Chinese companies. Cancel your anthropic and chatgpt - they will suffocate quickly.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8 hours

    AI really appeals to a fantasy that I think all of us have to some extent but that powerful people really have, of a world without people in it—because hell really is other people.

    This. The AI industry is pushing super hard to make it work, to replace human workers. It’s failing, as AI work is crappier than human work and costs way, way more than human work, but there’s that Ayn Rand fantasy that the ownership class can just shut out the worker class and create an utopia.

    I’m reminded of the car factory in which the upper management fired the striking workers assuming they could do the work themselves, only to find that the unskilled labor actually took skill.

    • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      I’m constantly struck by the imagery of the giant warrior from Nausicaa. There is a timeline or a reality where this worked, but they couldn’t help themselves. They woke the beast up the second it was even halfway possible and now it’s tearing itself apart in self-destructive blasts because the whole thing was under-cooked (and probably the completely wrong direction to begin with).

      If there’s any consolation here it’s that hopefully this has soured enough people on the idea that a second effort won’t even get off the ground. I hope …

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      8 hours

      No, hell is loneliness and that’s what humanity gets if it goes down the Ai / dystopian route. We can see in China today how people are suffering from loneliness despite having tech to order food and items and having them delivered in hours.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7 hours

        Personally I can and will ramble towards my cats about the intricacies of late Bronze Age trade networks in Central Italy. They slap me for it. I see no reason for human interactions given that I have honest counters to my pre-existing madness.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    English
    8 hours

    My friend was blathering on about Cory Doctorow two decades ago and I knew the name, had maybe read a little bit. I was kind of annoyed how ofter he brought him up. Man did he come out ahead of me on that. This guy articulates the ills of society so well.

    • freeman@feddit.orgEnglish
      6 hours

      absolutely stunning to hear him talk, he is an exceptional man

    • markko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      For those wondering, the ebooks for Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, With a Little Help from My Friends, and Context are pay what you’d like.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12 hours

      A centaur is a human that can do more than an ordinary person… A person plus a horse is able to do more. Making our tools work for us allows us to do more.

      A reverse centaur is when our tools are using us instead. Rather than a driver using a computer to navigate more efficiently, Amazon drivers are more like computers that use humans as a component to drive more efficiently than the computer itself could. Not great for the human.

      • Garnish2087@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        14 hours

        If you’ve read this post or kept up with his blog occasionally the book treads familiar grounds. I sill think it’s worth the read to have a condensed version.

        Doctorow guides you through understanding the AI bubble by proving you don’t need to know the technical jargon or latest developments. All you need to have as a guiding framework is “what technology (actually) does and who it does it to.”

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      21 hours

      centaur = brain of a man, speed of a horse. reverse centaur = brain of a horse, speed of a man.

      substitute horse with ai.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    17 hours

    Mr Doctorov has a nice life where he needs to make no tough decisions. I envy a life without least-worse voting and other harm-reduction efforts, where one can write what he dreams and people will happily consume it.