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I Am An AI Hater

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simianwords ◴[] No.45044528[source]
Cynicism is the new virtue to signal for the tech elite class. New technology is the ideal way for those people to signal their cynicism.

> Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright, the way AI tech companies further the patterns of empire, how it’s a con that enables fraud and disinformation and harassment and surveillance, the exploitation of workers, as an excuse to fire workers and de-skill work, how they don’t actually reason and probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence, how people think it makes them faster when it makes them slower, how it is inherently mediocre and fundamentally conservative, how it is at its core a fascist technology rooted in the ideology of supremacy, defined not by its technical features but by its political ones.

This word salad proves that the author out to stack leftist jabs. I want to be respectful but this paragraph proves that the author does not think for themselves but just uses this as an opportunity to signal that they are the "in group" amongst the tech-cynics.

Post is probably going to get flagged for what its worth

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1. phyzome ◴[] No.45047020[source]
Do you also rail against the "word salad" coming out of the AI marketing blogs that are also posted to this site?
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2. simianwords ◴[] No.45048892[source]
Examples? I do think some of them are pure hype but overall AI is here to stay. People like using it and get value from it.
3. petralithic ◴[] No.45056522[source]
Yes, of course. You also see those flagged to just as this one has been now. Turns out people don't like word salad of any kind.