lib1 [comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • I can’t speak for everyone, only for myself. My opposition to AI isn’t an opposition to the disembodied, out-of-context concept of AI. It’s an opposition to the context in which AI exists and of which it’s emblematic. The form that LLMs take in our society exists because of a prioritization of profit and ownership over workers. I can go more in depth about the specifics of that that if you’d like.

    We can have a discussion about the efficacy of luddites and their strategies in working class liberation. I don’t disagree that they achieved little. I just don’t think that their methods failing means we should dismiss the anger they felt or similarly the anger people feel about AI. That’s the truly analogous part. When I rail against AI on Lemmy, I’m not advocating for individuals to start breaking into a smashing up data centers. That would be just as ineffective. But that expression of anger is still valid.









  • I just looked it up. There were 2 horses who played Artax so they could film continuously while not working the horses continuously. They trained the horses for 7 weeks to be comfortable submerging themselves up to the neck in mud. Still a wild thing to do to a horse but neither of them died