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Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts · 27 replies

Daily reminder than anti-Al people are they equivalent of 19th century factory workers raging impotently at automation

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by Moonset 🌙 · 4 hearts

The Industrial Revolution took decades of innovation and societal changes, where citizens and governments had time to catch up to the exploitation and destruction through regulation. We’ve had 3 years of pushing this shit out as fast as possible so a few can get immensely wealthy before we can react. It’s not the same at all

by orchid_nightmare · 1 heart

You are my goat

by Moonset 🌙 · 0 hearts

🙏 🙇

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

People were forming militias to smash factory equipment. They hated it because it took their low-skill jobs. Pretty direct parallel tbh.

by brvowhskychrlie · 3 hearts

the original luddites actually smashed shit up over bosses being willing to shit on worker’s rights and accept lousy quality from the machines they replaced their workers with. no parallels there, no sir-ee

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

You're right, modern day AI haters are equally deluded, but also more cowardly. They just seethe on reddit instead.

by mint green_pepper · 2 hearts

Automation is about speed and consistency. AI is unpredictable.

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

It consistently makes twitter artists seethe that it can draw better than them.

by mint green_pepper · 0 hearts

Because it's trained on them 💀

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

If it's trained on them, how is it better than them?

by RBF Life · 1 heart

Shut the fuck up

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

You sound angry.

by azure_mailing · 0 hearts

Yep. And they had every fucking right to do so back then, too.

by LuvYerMoneyNotU · 0 hearts

I agree.

by I confess · 0 hearts

The luddites got bad representation in school. They were largely not against the technology existing, they were fighting to share in the profits. They were put down and ridiculed.

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

But... why would they share the profits when they didn't own or create the machinery?

by I confess · 0 hearts

🙄

by Bluuuuu_proofer · 0 hearts

Bro is a commie