AI will likely decrease the contributors as already seen with AI blowing up some traditional communities.

That’s an interesting problem that I haven’t heard anyone bring up before. I wonder how much of an impact this actually has.

Maybe one day, I would like a scarf.

AI in school is an interesting issue, we can’t discount the fact that there are benefits to using AI in school as well. It needs to be up to countries to regulate usage and educate children on it’s use. Socialist countries seem to be doing a pretty good job at this.

The US’s dumbfuck government almost started a war with China

“sources say” hmm I wonder what those sources are, I’m sure the CNN would never extrapolate information out of nowhere to spread sinophobia and call for AI regulation (which is exactly what AI companies want at the moment.)

Calling something just a tool is whitewashing who’s making it and promoting it and what it’s used for. Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used

I’m not sure how calling AI a tool is whitewashing. Of course tools don’t exist outside of their material conditions, however, AI has many benefits, it’s just that capitalist economies will always use tools for the detriment of workers. Socialist countries have economies that are orientated to benefit the working class. They recognise the problems that arise from AI and work to fix them while using its benefits as much as possible to liberate workers rather than burden them.

essentially disruption will always keep happening, its how its handled thats the important part.

I do agree. We can look at countries with different economic and political systems to see which ones handle them best. Countries with socialist economic systems are able to use AI for the benefit of workers. While companies with capitalist economic systems use AI at the expense of workers.

Now do it for the planned capacity of every AI data center currently planned or under construction or waiting for compute manufacturing by the big tech monopolists, and the trillions of dollars of labor that they’re telling the world they’ll replace whether the product is capable of it or not.

No you. My statistic still stands, if you would like to provide a different one please do. Maybe it will be 2%.

Your second paragraph is shifting the blame away from capitalism and towards AI. Economic bubbles and mass layoffs are features of capitalism, this is a pattern that has been repeating since capitalism was born. If not AI it would be something else.

You need a W for woke.

xboxlm next?

yeah… my bad

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I don’t think AI is the most destructive at all. AI is responsible for around 1% of carbon emissions (do your own research if you want a proper source). There are so many things, such as cars that emit way more than this.

As for job loss there are so many things that have eliminated so many more jobs. Tractors, knitting machines, production lines, automation in factories etc. No one says we should stop using tractors so we can have more jobs for farmers.

also: i do knit, lol. just a coincidence in example.

That’s funny, I’ve got a half knitted scarf somewhere but I’ve never gotten into it properly.

No it’s just the newest tool that does that.

Are your clothes machine knitted? Do you know you’re destroying the jobs of people who hand knitted clothes? And let’s not forget the art form of hand knitting that is now being insulted by people who buy machine knitted clothes without a care. And let’s not forget about the environmental impact of knitting machines that require electricity while hand knitting doesn’t!

The same could be said about so many things.

There isn’t really a fundumental difference thar I can see between AI and other tools, at least that I can see.

My bad for procrastinating reading this for 23 days (it’s been at the bottom of my unread inbox) If we’re going to continue this conversation let’s keep the messages short (if possible) so my adhd brain doesn’t get overwhelmed. Also since it’s been 23 days I won’t be taken aback if you don’t reply.

Thanks for telling me what you mean by neoliberal rugpulling.

Although I can understand the use of heuristics to simplify complex things (when the simplification is reasonably accurate) I just don’t see the russian revolution turning out that way, and I think most Russians would agree.

Thank you for the lesson, I am trying to get better at recognizing fallacies.

Voting strategically is very easy in Australia with mandatory voting and a preferential system, so I will do.

Advocating for privacy without class consciousness ultimately leads to nothing.

I’m weary of the slippery slope fallacy embedded in your reply, I’m not sure if using some AI often results quality to fall out the window.

Also I don’t really trust any new projects to be maintained for a long time, unless I trust the developer(s) have a clear commitment to supporting it in the long term.

this project (configarr) is one I’ve been using in myself-hosted setup clearly uses AI to help with development, although I’m not sure to what extent. It’s been maintained consistently for 2 years.

Avoiding using brand new programs has worked quite well for me not being left with unmaintained software so far.

Unionising, organising, Striking and protesting is the second best way to improve living conditions, and you can do it right now. Historically the best advancements in living conditions in most of the world, including the US have been through striking. Not voting.

I think that has been the tactic for the last 200 years, and it hasn’t really gotten the US anywhere.

No one has suggested a better alternative to me. I’d love to hear it

We need to unite as workers and revolt against the bourgeoisie! To form a democracy that works for workers, not the elite.

Using AI isn’t just a sign of laziness. I don’t see an issue with using the tools available to do something in less time than usual. If a program is vibe coded then of course it’s usually going to be of bad quality, but if it’s a mix of human and human checked AI then it can still be a high quality project.

This new wave of strikes recently is exciting.