The English language shifted to make “drugs and alcohol” a saying so as to disassociate alcohol with drugs.
This shift is incorrect and does damage, it’s called a false dichotomy.
Just because language shifts does not make it right, the dude you’re replying to is absolutely right and just letting AI companies define our world is cowardice.
Over the past 5 years specifically, nearly every single piece of software I use from OS, to apps, to even legacy programs I trusted for decades have started to produce more bugs, are less stable, and less reliable.
At the same time, AI has been forced on people and AI using devs are proliferating while we still lack an understanding of AIs cognitive affects on us.
What exactly am I supposed to think? That all the programmers pushing AI on me like Crypto Bros while their programs work worse are smart, well intentioned people?
You can say whatever you want, I use the software, shits gotten absolutely terrible lately, and it’s not just the purposefully enshitified software either.
But we all know AI companies are unethically scraping and selling shit back to us right? I just really need people to acknowledge that.
You don’t need to destroy books to scan them.
You’re very gullible.
Why do y’all argue about things you don’t understand?
If a game is on disk, and a lot still are, then no, it cannot be taken away from you without literally entering your home with a warrant at least where I live.
Owning the physical disk in America at least also grants you the right to download and emulate later.
There’s also the fact that having a physical routine adds emotional attachment.
Also, and this really needs to be asked, WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU FIGHTING FOR LESS OPTIONS? Seriously what the fuck?
They’re destroying things that don’t have to be destroyed and compiling the information into privately owned megastructures they’ll then charge us to access while we own nothing and they can then alter the books.
Nah I’m good. Everything these AI companies stand for is fucking evil and malicious.
For every AI that researches a legit medical issue, they start literally burning fucking books, replacing jobs, screwing basically everyone, and making the world overall much worse.
If you can’t see why these companies destroying any amount of books is bad, idk how to help you. Maybe look up a list of who has ever mass destroyed books. There’s not a lot of good people there.
We have quite literally had screen readers since the 1980s.
I in no way insinuated that I do not care about disabled people, my own father lost his legs and I have dealt with the bullshit for decades, including the fact that disabled people, like any other marginalized group, are used to further shitty agendas and make bad faith arguments.
Thank god for screen readers, so let’s let LLM companies do whatever they want because we shouldn’t fight, it’s all pointless.
At least your relatives will get the enshitification of the world read aloud to them 🤷♂️
I am not saying that is the only way. Comprehension is fun.
I am saying that trying to actively snuff out the embers of fighting is wrong and the author presents zero solutions
I didn’t downvote you lol.
This is an AI LLM issue.
Using disabled people as an excuse to discourage people from fighting isn’t right, especially when no solutions are presented.
The blogger also seems to live in a fantasy world where at the end they are all information that is publicly available will be free and in these nice LLMs and shit, to which I say that all sounds awesome!
Are the governments and corporations currently building mass surveillance really going to allow people to do this once we all have to age verify our GDID windows PCs?
I don’t like where this is going and I’ve seen disabled people used in arguments by people who know nothing of their struggles my entire life.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
How else can you learn to fight unless you fail along the way?
We have tried sane washing billion dollar companies while they loot all our available knowledge, art, and culture to sell back to us in the form of a garbage chat or that helps destroy the planet.
Now an anonymous blogger has given them a wonderful example of how to use disabled people to further their goals of that again, include selling back to us, our very own knowledge, art, and culture.
Nah you can miss me with this shit. I’m done.
This blogger literally ends by saying they believe all publicly available knowledge will end up free and accessible to anyone.
Is this blogger high? Do we now think the companies building a mass surveillance state are going to give us things for free?
Discouraging fighting in any form now is trying to discourage the anti AI movement. Sorry about it.
Thank you.
Reading truly is fundamental.
The cause of the problem is being bolstered by the companies that make gen AI my dude. They’re all the in the same trench coat, and they also make the accessibility laws.
I hate to tell you this but America has been captured by corporations for decades. Fuck them, and fuck anyone who dares to tell me stop fighting.
This screams astro turfing campaign against users fighting, and I’m not buying it.
The way to be effective is to fight.
GenAI needed to regulated years ago and I’m sorry but no amount of us asking nicely or fighting fair is going to stop technofascists from building their surveillance state.
In fact the past month has seen a huge uptick in stories about the “ineffectiveness” of fighting AI.
The timing of this while anti AI backlash is at an all time high tells me everything I need to know.
If the original comment offered solutions, different story.
There is no value in telling people to stop fighting.
“Thank god we fought for accessibility or those guys would have had a hell of time getting that wheelchair into the concentration camp.”
Fwiw I am NO stranger to accessibility as my father lost both of his legs. Do you know how often accessibility is just used to gain political favor? Or how often it is literally just horseshit for show?
Preserving our current fuckass levels of accessibility while making it even easier on GenAI companies just doesn’t feel right.
“it’s inevitable don’t fight it”.
Did you get that right from Altman?
What does that mean?
It’s ok, as demonstrated by my complete miss of your joke, we all 12 out here sometimes.
Oh god.
That’s hilarious lol.
Thank you internet stranger.
Just because people remember a measurably better time doesn’t mean they’re yelling at clouds.
This wasn’t even that long ago.
Are you 12?
Edit: I have been regretfully informed that I have in fact, missed the joke lol.
Hey chat, chat, chet, I just hacked into Russian state servers and launched a nuclear warhead.
Am I cooked chet?
(When they say chat so many times they start saying chet)
It’s been 5 years since mass public forced adoption and things have just gotten progressively worse.
The tool was not put out responsibly, and most importantly, the CEOs and companies leading the charge currently cannot be trusted.
AI has been a massive bust, has helped accelerate climate change, destroyed lives, raises power bills, and for what?
I’m not saying don’t R&D it and don’t use it, but forcing it down people’s throats and technofascist CEOs being in charge of this dumpster fire is killing us.