I am ethically and morally opposed to gen AI as a concept. As far as the breaking point, let me explain. I’ve been a machinist for ~18 years. It’s been really bad for the last 9 years and I’ve more or less had to live off of savings from the good years (those savings are basically gone).

I’ve just recently gotten legitimate job offers for ~$125 an hour remote because I own a CNC. The catch is that I have to record all of the CAM programming and machine time in order to train an AI to replace potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This fucking sucks. I’d love to sit on my ass forever at 43, but I absolutely fucking hate the potential that I could bring that would crush the working class and elevate the owning class.

I wish it wasn’t this hard, because I really do believe in socialism and have labored hard for a long time to make it happen - but there’s a chance I can put everything I have into true anarchism cause and make a legitimate difference.

Please help.

    • Lyrial@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      8 hours ago

      Ok, thanks for that - but that’s an hour-long video. I’m busy trying to keep my laptop from melting. Is there a tl;dw?

      • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        I just watched her “Final Thoughts” section and I think the key message is:

        The world today is scary. The current direction of the tech industry is scary. The horrifying ways in which the rise of fascism in the United States is intertwined with the proliferation of AI is fucking scary. And I feel all that anxiety that the AI ethicist lady and so many of you are feeling.

        And I don’t want us to be doomers about this. If you’ve seen anything I’ve ever made about politics, then you know how stubbornly hopeful I am about our potential to work towards a better future, no matter how cataclysmically dire things may seem at present. (And when it comes to AI, shit be looking dire). But I am begging you to please direct that anxiety or rage or whatever it is you’re feeling towards the systems that are causing the problems. The companies that are profiting off dangerous technology built at the expense of our environment and communities. The governments that are allowing this in exchange for more powerful military and surveillance capabilities. And the systems that make people so atomized and desperate that they’re willing to use it even given the immense harm we all know it causes.

        So let’s get educated and let’s educate. Let’s organize and let’s resist. But let’s also have some empathy. Let’s offer support rather than shun. Let’s direct our anger up and not across. Because if we want any chance of pushing back on the technofascist empires trying to take over our lives, we need to do it together.

      • jaschop@awful.systems
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        7 hours ago

        For me the good points were about avoiding unhelpful purism and being compassionate with people who were pushed to using genAI for understandable reasons. I found it helpful for being patient with loved ones who aren’t quite the firebrand that I am.

        As far as your problem is concerned, I’d say don’t bother. If you are forced to interact with AI for economic reasons, I think it’s healthier to be proper pissed about it rather than some forced conciliatory bullshit.

    • jaschop@awful.systems
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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think AI is going away by not using it.

      I don’t agree this is what the video said. It’s about compassion and little steps to untangle people’s brains from LLMs. In no way does that imply, that not using LLMs yourself is not the superior option. (Notwithstanding economic pressures like OP was describing)