Did he even do anything with “tech”? He made a website, and by the time it got to any level of complexity there were people smarter than him doing the real work. And it’s not like MySpace didn’t already exist at the time, so as usual it’s the less creative second person with a few fewer morals who ended up with the big money.

Hey, so you’re obviously not here for a serious conversation so I’m gunna leave you in your mud puddle by yourself, champ. You probably already feel this way, but you aren’t worth it.

Lemme do some thinking for you: If you have a bunch of aggressive people who say they’re going to harrass men in the women’s restroom, and who do not accept that trans women are women, then you need to be worried about the safety of trans women.

If someone believed that all puppies were the spawn of the devil and said they were going to kill them all on sight you wouldn’t go “well I don’t believe they are the spawn of the devil so obviously there is no danger.”

Lots of people care, what kind of an ignorant statement is that? No one is saying that bad art is amazing art, we’re saying that bad art is still art and Ai slop isn’t art at all. And just like music where the artist turns out to have been hiding how shit they are, it’s possible that a lot of people will like something until they get new information and the go “ew, no thanks, actually.”

The technology will definitely struggle to survive if we don’t buy into the bullshit “inevitability” argument. Why is capitalism always “the market drives the innovation” until it’s something stupid that a billionaire wants and then it’s “too bad, fuck you”?

It’s so tiring having to explain colour to grey people.

Except that the damage it’s causing, just so someone can avoid reading a little, goes waaaay beyond a matter of opinion.

I do genuinely think AI is soulless and that alone is enough, but entirely separate of that its implementation is nothing but environment destroying, health fucking, brain sucking, garbage being used to spy on people. It’s all the bad shit that ever Cyberpunk and adjacent media ever has been warning against with none of the cool stuff.

Also it is definitely different than hating photoshop but if that’s where you’re at I’m going to save myself the anyeurism trying to explain it.

K.

Despite them being a little out of wack and a terrible communicator, they do have a point. AI’s main selling point is centered around how it can make everyone more productive as if we actually need even more productivity. We’re all more than productive enough, AI is giving us nothing but unemployment(as those left are told to work harder), more climate destabilization, and reduced quality of life for every single living thing nearby a data centre.

Their first comment was also just plain bad, not gunna defend that at all. They seem kinda loopy.

You gotta work on your communication, I have zero clue what you’re trying to say. You start off heavily implying at AI is of a high quality, saying nothing else, and then go on about being pro-working class/pro person(I think?), but do it in a way that has holes in just the weirdest places.

It reads like an anti-tax weirdo’s poor understanding of how things work, and a big entity that owns property would love to spend less money on property taxes that might actually benefit the community.

You have the reading comprehension of a toddler. The article is not about a pair of glasses, it’s about a tech company’s response to AI and surveillance, and how another company is irresponsibly using those things.

Just in the context it’s very “performative hipster”. I’m not taking offense, just new to this and like to know people’s opinions/perceptions until I can eventually form my own.

I’m mostly just asking because I figured the meme was based in something.

I’m no experienced software guy, mostly just a guy who isn’t dangerously stupid, but I’ve been having a good time so far. Or rather, a boring time because the only thing I had to really do was edit the fstab so my other drive would auto-mount. Otherwise it’s delightfully unexciting.

I installed it last week. If just kinda works, is there supposed to be something bad about it?

Paid for with the money they sent.

Careful, we do that in Canada and it makes it very hard to have a conversation when your “centrist”(very conservative) party does a bunch of truly awful shit and half the country pulls “but it’s better than Trump!” put of their ass instead of actually doing anything meaningful.

If freedom is the ability to complain, lots of countries with stringer regulations have that. They have it but better, even, because they have a much greater ability to stop it going away.

I keep those power fantasies to my brain because I can tell the difference between a daydream and reality. I don’t care what AI could make me feel, I am never going to use it for anything if I’m aware of it.

I’m just certain you’re fully understanding this. Your original comment showed that your priority lay more with the technology than with the regulation which will keep us safe. It’s like you’re halfway there, and I don’t want to say I’m not acknowledging that, but much of this technology isn’t even really helping, and we keep supporting it as if we want it to be ready once we’ve gotten our acts together but all it’s doing is reinforcing the already disasterous power imbalances.

More productivity is not always a good thing. What you’re producing actually has to be good, and that’s what a LOT of people are missing. It’s like people saying that AI is great because “they” can “make” a picture really quickly, but they’ve completely side-stepped a major part of fucking existence and the meaning behind what it is to be a human being. Right now all this producitivity is ultimately going towards increased violence, hatred, and the destruction of the “pesky” working class so a few of the worst people can profit even more.

Ya know what’s crazy? A four-day work week has been proven to be more productive and cheaper without even paying anyone less. This has been the case for a long time, but we’re not doing it. It is something incredibly easy to implement and even at its worst it gives the same productivity AND a three-day weekend. It’s the easiest choice in the world and we aren’t making it. Productivity isn’t the point, it’s control and abuse.

Meanwhile, you ask a near trillionaire to pay even 10% taxes and they act like you’re actively breaking their legs and throwing them onto the street to starve.

Bro, we’re so much more productive in every way than we’ve ever been. Every year it’s another tool and more promises that if we all buy into this billionaire’s new toy we’ll never work again and every year it’s more of the same. The only thing that ever comes true is that the rich take more and return less. Our productivity has never resulted in fewer work hours for the same or more money. The best we got was a reduction in work hours that people fought died over.

You’re cheering on and funding a future that wants to erase you, not benefit you. You cannot build the future you claim will exist if you start with a rotten foundation which can’t even offer more a couple days sick leave if you’re lucky, and which treats human beings as tools for the enrichment of a select handful of lazy parasites. You’re gunna build your replacement and then, as has always happened, you’ll ask for your reward and they’ll show you the fuckin’ door. How many pieces of media show that same naivety right before the scientist who made the villain strong gets used as a punching bag so no one else will benefit? It’s a tale as old as time, a lesson we cannot seem to learn.