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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Preface: anyone who’s really mad just read the last three sentences. I promise this goes somewhere.

    I think the Lemmy party line is a bit naive about AI. The issue isn’t the energy or the water, not inherently. It can be built and run just fine in ways that don’t waste all these resources. That said, the issue is that it isn’t and the reason is unrelated to the tech itself, it’s because a small number of people, who also don’t understand it at all, are locked in a winner-take-all death race to create a worker exploitation machine. “AI” isn’t intelligent but it’s a very powerful set of algorithms that we need to understand and maintain some level of control over within the working class. People need to know what it is and isn’t capable of and probably want to be proficient at using it. It’s not brilliant and going to replace everyone tomorrow but it’s also not always a worthless slop factory, it’s a secret third thing that we’re still working to understand the potential of.

    Lemmy likes to hate AI blindly and everyone is mostly justified in that feeling but it needs to be directed productively if we’re not going to just play into the hands of the people we’re at war with. The luddites lost the last war by way of the wealthy redefining what they stood for to turn society against them in the long run. They weren’t anti technology idiots, they were anti exploitation organizers, wildly ahead of their time. To just write off AI entirely is to fall into the former camp. To seek to understand and control it for the working class is to fall into the latter I think.