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[–] [S] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Now, we all know how fucking awful oil and gas companies are, and auto manufacturers, however in many places it’s impossible to have a job and survive without a vehicle. There are far too many sprawling metroplexes that are impossible to navigate without the use of a car.

That aside, it is entirely possible to get through life without the use of AI.

With AI, it’s a race to the bottom. They are ignoring eco regulations, ignoring what citizens want, and pouring billions of dollars into the construction of data centers, manufacturing of GPUs, and advertising to make AI successful because it HAS TO BE SUCCESSFUL otherwise they stand to seriously lose. Environment be damned, they will and are destroying forests, dumping waste into water supplies, and contributing tons of waste heat into the atmosphere while grossly under reporting it.

This is a MASSIVE difference than the above mentioned.

Not to mention the fact that AI only exists through the theft of IP of artists, scientific journalists, mathematicians, journalists, poets, authors, and everything between. Laws don’t apply to them because they peruse the greater good that is their shareholder’s profit and no government can stand in their way.

No one NEEDS AI, yet they continue to force it on society because failure is not an option for them. Adopt it or else. That’s the message.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago

    this is exactly how fossil fuels came to dominate the economy. not because people actually needed them, but because investors invested so much and shoved the tech down everybody's proverbial throat until there was no way out anymore

    please, don't get me wrong! i am against LLM driven techno fascism as any other sensible person, all i'm trying to say is that being an arrogant, elitist prick looking down on others will not abolish capitalism

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