I'm not against AI, I'm against the way it's abused under capitalism
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
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Everyone should be a skeptic since we live under capitalism
I'm against the way AI is built on the stolen labor of posters, the most oppressed class 😠
Hit up the critical tech reading list
Listen to This Machine Kills, an unironically marxist-luddist podcast.
If we're recommending podcasts, Tech Won't Save Us is also v good and they have a lot of critical eps about AI.
Also Dune literally had an anti-AI rebellion called the Butlerian Jihad which I think is relevant.
All this shit should be open source. Totally against any AI that isn't.
There does seem to be some overlap yeah. Recent discourse around gen ai feels seems like a bunch of AI freaks telling already struggling artists that they just hate progress while they actively loose their jobs.
Shame you can't smash AI to pieces.
AI is just a marketing term. Another bubble built on shaky foundations. Unfortunately when it pops and people realize it's shit, the ones pushing for it now won't face any consequences.
Are you serious
The Luddites were based
Yes people have been gaslighting the fuck out of me with this “AI” bullshit
The Luddites were infantilized despite having extremely valid concerns (and what do you know they were fucking right)
I think OP is talking about the Luddite movement and not the caricaturised notion of Luddites that gets used as a Return To Monke slur.
There's a reason why the common conceptualisation of the Luddites is "Technological progress bad" and, shockingly, that's because liberals always divorce class struggle from politics reflexively because it's critical to maintaining their worldview.
Why so serious 
The actual Luddite movement wasn't "technology bad" it was "We don't want to become unemployed because our jobs were automated away and the factory owners and government would let us starve to death, and we're going to protest that by destroying the machines that would destroy us to harm the capitalists"
Right but that mentality doesn't describe AI skeptics it describes people who are against AI
well for one thing the luddites didn't dispute the names of the machines they smashed because they couldn't collectivize them
I'm almost finished with Blood in the Machine. It's amazing and Brian Merchant made that shit come alive for me. He deftly weaves the concerns of modern workers and tech skeptics into the bloody and righteous struggle of the Luddites.
No General but Ludd