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Patrick Nathan

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“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.

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rom comrade's avatar rom comrade @savasavasava.bsky.social
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yes and yes and yes. I wish more people would truly understand this and come together to oppose it. sigh. may I share a screenshot of your skeet with my students?

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True Tourtillott 's avatar True Tourtillott @truet.bsky.social
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…and makes you a party to theft

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall's avatar Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social
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As a huge fan of articulating complex issues simply and succinctly, you certainly did a number with this. Absolutely spot-on and depressingly true. Top marks.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones's avatar Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social
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This is so well articulated. Thank you. Do you mind if I share a screenshot on other platforms?

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Sam Crutsinger 📺 🔊 🎬 💉x5's avatar Sam Crutsinger 📺 🔊 🎬 💉x5 @samcrut.bsky.social
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Bit of a hot take for emerging technology. Kinda like saying there are stupid kids who aren't provided a quality education, so we should kill all children. None of today's AIs will be used in a few months. More useful and less offensive systems will keep replacing them as they figure this tech out.

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Maggie WW's avatar Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social
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Endanger BS computer scientists, journalists, artist and photographers, song writers - the creative class. We need a standardized ID/mark for human authenticity.

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Carl Wilhoyte's avatar Carl Wilhoyte @carlwilhoyte.bsky.social
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Except that it doesn't work and they can't find a decent way to monetize it. Like the Big Data frenzy, all these startups are just money pits.

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Primrose Boynton's avatar Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social
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📌

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Critical Fearist 's avatar Critical Fearist @nathanaeledward.bsky.social
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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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Sharla Berry's avatar Sharla Berry @sharlaberry.bsky.social
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@theferocity.bsky.social thought you might find this interesting!

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Rupert Ramsgate's avatar Rupert Ramsgate @rupertramsgate.bsky.social
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AI enables the cannibalization and recycling of the results of all previous creativity.

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The(Darth)Travis's avatar The(Darth)Travis @trevorgordon.bsky.social
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Scream it from the rooftops.

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TQ White II's avatar TQ White II @tqwhite.bsky.social
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"Unforgivably worthless"? You go way too far there. We are already seeing good progress on new drugs and biomedical research. I have seen some excellent documentation projects. I have used GPT to learn/figure out stuff that completely impractical any other way. As a programmer, it is invaluable.

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Erin Fogg's avatar Erin Fogg @criminalerin.bsky.social
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But what else can I use to visualize Batman kissing Superman? MY IMAGINATION???????

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Yves Jeanrenaud's avatar Yves Jeanrenaud @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social
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But isn't that embedded in Smith'ian capitalism and capitalism in general? Worth is within the shareholder, neither the consumer nor the producer's eye. So maybe AI is just the climax of neoliberal capitalistic evolvement as there is nothing left to do on a burning planet where only few care anyhow

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