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It’s an apt comparison.
The industrial revolution crippled long-established sustainable practices and forced people to move into cities with miserable conditions and perform inhuman labor that maimed and disfigured them for life, with all of the profits going to the already-obscenely-wealthy.
It also supercharged colonization, and pollution… there are a lot of parallels here.
And then you’ve got the enclosure acts, which are analogous to how AI companies took our digital commons and privatized it to sell it back to us.
Also, alternative article without paywall: https://gizmodo.com/graduation-speaker-says-ai-is-the-next-industrial-revolution-immediately-drowned-out-by-booing-students-2000757140
And video of the section of the speech: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSTdbu8u9oc
I was thinking the same thing.
Although, I’d bet big money that is not what she was implying.
This one got comments and is shorter. Gloria Caulfield Booed at UCF Graduation Speech
I watched the first official full length AI-based film on TV the other day and while it was aesthetically consistent with a message of dreariness and edited by humans, after 5 minutes it got tiresome. It’s like second life 2 (or whatever facebook calls it): has some potential…but who wants to spend their free time consuming this slop?
They can be in denial all they want, but it is.
It’s a computer program. At the absolute most, it’s a revolution in software.
And that’s only if you want your programs to be designed by statistics in the most inelegant way possible.
It’s a replacement for human intellect. I’m stunned by how many people can’t see the obvious.
The first industrial revolution led to workers fighting back so If you mean we will fight back then ok… Chatgipty is not innovation. They lower the bar… there is no value thats why business leaders exchange their buzzword propaganda like “we need to communicate value” but we can see a turd and it is a turd.
It also led to workers getting cavalry charged by toffs for daring to demand better working conditions.
Well let’s make sure we’re better armed this time around.
The guns coming out of AI factories are propaganda and divinding to conquer. So unless you’re thinking metaphorically “armed with concord and live community building”, I doubt that being armed will help much against other brainwashed people…I guess it beats having nothing…but the work to do is not there, it is in social cohesion.
