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  • @Saryn@lemmy.world
    12•4 days ago

    You’re tilting at windmills. It’s not about rejecting technological advancement. It’s about ensuring its fairness and accessability.

    Yes, technology can be (and is) used for social good. It can also be (and is) used to opress and supress. What’s more both dynamics are happening at the same time. The world isn’t black-and-white. The human condition is complex.

    • @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      -5•4 days ago

      That’s exactly my point.

      AI is just another technology. If some corporation does bad things with it is just bad. If some people do good things with it then is good.

      But people charge at AI just because itself. They are against the technology. Not the corporations using it.

      I have been given the example “But UH is using AI to deny medical treatment”. What if instead of AI they would have used a Java application? They would be against Java? No, because that argument is not rational.

      They are just against AI because etsy artists who made easy money doing porn commission got their hustle broken by AI doing a better job for free. That’s just how the anti-AI movement somehow got mixed in some leftist circles, because etsy artists are too influential in those circles. And their complain got blown out of proportions.

      • modifier
        8•4 days ago

        No one is really talking about AI as inherently bad. It’s current implementation is impossible to separate from consolidated ownership by big tech and environmental rape in the name of delivering a technology that has no clear use case to the end consumer yet.

        Just because people don’t want unpack all of that nuance for pedants like you doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

        Until AI means something different than the transgressive genAI integration and resource hoarding of big Tech - indeed until AI is no longer synonymous with Big Tech, then all of this wretched handwringing you’re engaging in over the distinction between the two will continue to be useless, meaningless, and fucking annoying.

        Spend your time on something useful. Would you like a new prompt?

        • @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          -8•4 days ago

          They actually are though.

          Environmental rape. Fun meaningless term, when having Photoshop open for hours is more environmentally damaging that creating the equivalent with Stable Diffusion.

          You cannot unpack any nuance because you are intellectually incapable of doing so. As you only seem to follow the latest trend for your favourite influencer, without actually making any real analysis of what you are saying or writing. The “funny meaningless terminology” you used is more than enough indicator to me that behind those words there are not any thoughts.

          I’m not big tech and I use AI, in a computer with a top 40W consumption. So try again cave boy. Try tell me how I’m “raping” earth with that use of AI.

          Sorry for all the names thrown in this post, but you got it coming.

          I hope that if you hate AI because it’s overly and needlessly used by big tech everywhere you at least would have the decency of hating JavaScript too.

      • @Saryn@lemmy.world
        8•4 days ago

        Seems like you’re prescribing a lot of opinions to the people you’re replying to. But if you go back and read what they wrote carefully you should see that your deductions and assumptions about what they think don’t really stand the test of reason and semantics. Especially given how much of a tech-focused forum this is. Every third post is about Linux - so realistically what are the chances that you are enaging with primitivists on here?

        • @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          -2•4 days ago

          Linux is not a “scary new technology”. It has been around forever.

          Try to look for a positive view on any technology that has been blooming in the last 5-10 years instead. You’ll find few. At least I find few.

          For instance, self driving cars are also hated. Digital currency instead of cash (not talking about cryptocurrency, just things like digital euro, or digital yuan). Any form of digitalization of anything that wasn’t digital until the last 5 years seems to be hated.

          Welp, even smartphones seems to be hated. The other day I stumbled into a post where a lot of people said that they preferred old fliphones and where considering getting one instead of a smartphone.

          Technobros used as derogatory term. Hell, even Luigi was being called out here for being a “technobro”.

          Primitivism is on the rise. I wish it wasn’t, but it is.