@shiri@mmby@Daojoan I haven’t seen any reason to be optimistic about #ai. Under #capitalism all I see are dead arts, replaced jobs, and the loss of humanity. I think it’s naive to believe otherwise.
That’s not even getting into its impact on #climatechange
The thing is Ai is a tool of capitalism as much as guns are a tool of war. Sure they can exist outside those roles, but the reality they make both war and capitalism deadlier and more costly.
@AlexanderKingsbury@shiri@mmby@Daojoan “Could” is not a substitute for “Will.” NFT could have revolutionized a lot of things but the most common use case for them became to scam people and launder money. Given the implementations I see now, I have no reason to be even slightly optimistic about what we call Ai.
Also, no artist has ever asked for this, and most have had their livelihoods jepardized by how it. But sure, let’s keep pretending we’re doing them a favor.
I'm starting to think there will be business opportunities that are branded as "AI-free" much like food is branded Organic.
I'm already starting to look for products like that.
It's the same rationale for why my refrigerator doesn't need to be connected to the internet. Or why my hammer doesn't need to ask me about my day when I take ot out of the toolbox.
Society: You must cover your genitals at all times but wear clothes that represent your genitals because while you’re not supposed to think about other people’s genitals I get very uncomfortable when I can’t tell what genitals other people have.
@renegadejade Society: everyone cover your genitals. But you, cover half your body, and possibly your shoulders, legs or any part that we may have a problem with, oh and no red.
I used to be involved in political demonstrations a lot more when I was younger. I still see their value.
People would tell me, I shouldn't expect the demonstration to 'work', ie I shouldn't expect it to change the thing I'm protesting. I don't.
My take has always been that we demonstrate mostly to change ourselves, to give each other courage and resolve to do the small day-to-day small things and work that create real change.
That's still why I get up each morning. The work still needs doing
When Trump wins, people will silently march in the street, Proud Boys will attack them, brutalize them, some will be unalived, and the cops stand by and will do nothing.
The ruling class have lots of excuses for why cops should bash kids' head in for disagreeing with them. It's always "outside agitators," "Russian disinformation," or "the TikTok."
If the protesters really were fake ultra-violent professionals instead of ordinary college students, they'd be on campus with AR-15s and shit, not bike chains and empty water canisters.
But there's an audience of older, conservative people who want a reason to hate these kids.
It's a good thing nobody made any meaningful reforms the last time cops murdered a guy in cold blood for no reason and it sparked the biggest wave of civil rights protests since the 1960s that cops nearly universally responded to with a fusillade of pointless violence against unarmed people and by strongarming municipal governments entertaining even the mildest measure of civilian oversight, after which nearly all cop unions endorsed an overt racist authoritarian then in the process of implementing the most massive battery crimes in the history of the republic with the ultimate goal of ending American democracy in favor of an unelected fascist police state, so that a few years later those same cops, heroes that they are, would feel liberated to do the important work of beating and gassing kids on their own college campuses for the insidious crime of chanting slogans.