• flandish@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    the newst tool happens to be the one doing the most destruction, so… yes.

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

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      2 hours ago

      Flying is almost surely more destructive, and pretty common part of how we work these days.

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      6 hours ago

      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.

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        6 hours ago

        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.

        The bot doesn’t have to be able to do your job to displace your labor. It only has to convince your boss that it can. Right now the big tech monopolists are actively convincing the entire world’s bosses that they can replace your labor. This doesn’t have to be true to be a labor issue, and it certainly doesn’t have to be true to be a devastating economic bubble.

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          2 hours ago

          I don’t believe they’ll finish. If you do believe they’ll finish and succeed in ripping communities off as planned, then I think you’re also predicting that this stuff really works and soon.

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        6 hours ago

        get back to the scarf! i have a blanket im working on too lol.

        but yeah. i think from our sw/eng industry, ai is at the least the one with the steepest destructive “curve”, i suppose.

        ty for your reply.