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.

  • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    So you do not use up any fossil fuels? Only buying from anarchist co-ops? No Supermarkets for you? Only second hand clothing? O course your vegan too? And i really hope you don’t pay rent to anyone!

    I hope you’re smart enough to realize this is a false equivalence by now but gonna leave this here just in case. Consuming products made by a shitty industry ≠ Working to advance another industry’s shittyness.

    This is a thread about someone with a dilemma about the latter, the former is not a dilemma for most people. Because you can engage in harm reduction in one or several fields without giving up on harm reduction in another field, or engaging in it everywhere at once.

    This is NOT how to build community, this is not how you get enough people to vote left(you know the thing that we ACTUALLY need to change something) this is one major reason why peoole think the left is a joke.

    It’s because the education system (on average) sucks and people will vote against themselves and the betterment of society. Not because some randos on the internet think you shouldn’t work for an AI company.

    Voting left does not require you to work for such a company. See above.

    Automation is coming no matter what and it isn’t a problem when we manage to make left wing policies popular enough to run on and win, so we can tax the shit out of these companies and give the money back to the people in various forms.

    It’s a global problem, local (even country-level) policies are not going to undo all the damage. The harm outweighs even the potential benefits, in my opinion. So it’s worth reducing it.

    For that reason I hope OP can find employment elsewhere, but I’m not gonna live their life for them.