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And nothing well matter as long as the rich keep putting money into it.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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If people felt like they weren't just being thrown to the wolves, maybe there could be some acceptance of it. But the overall feeling is that these parasites are looking at literally EVERY job, and devising a way to replace it with AI, without any regard to the human cost of it, or any other cost for that matter.
It's like a giant thought experiment in profit maximization for them, except they have no regard for the immense impact it will have on society, and they simply don't care, and we can SEE it clear as day:
They're trying to gaslight us that it's going to be great for all of us, but we KNOW that the ENTIRE objective is to replace as many disgusting human workers with AI as possible.
...Remind me what this "industry" actually produces?
Pollution and corruption.
Poverty.
Environmental ruin, wealth transfer from everyone to the richest of the rich, stolen art
Bad music, general uncertainty, water scarcity
And Piracy!
I have zero pity for an industry that is trying to pry itself into my daily life and into my pocket.
The AI industry deserves zero pity, not just because of that, here is my full list:
- Content stealing, AI companies have trained their models on data that they have had zero right to, books, movies, pictures, music, none of which they have paid for to use.
- Encouraging loss of skills and knowledge, companies/organizations thinking that a skilled and knowledgable employee is worth the same as a statistics driven chatbot will cause huge issues going forward, this is probably my biggest issue with AI currently, the rejection of skills and knowledge.
- The waste of resources, I can see the need for a few AI datacenters, I don't like AI, but clearly there is a market for it, however, I will not accept the extreme expansion of datacenters bing built and using local resources to the detriment of the local population.
- The classic dealer trap, "the first one is free", it is clear that in five years AI companies will have ramped up the cost of using their models by a LOT. Right now they are locking their customers into a trap that will start squeezing them hard.
- The genericness of the output, it is bland and just feels generic.
This is going to be a bloodbath.
The classic dealer trap, "the first one is free", it is clear that in five years AI companies will have ramped up the cost of using their models by a LOT.
It’s so obvious that this is going on but all the super geniuses running all the tech companies somehow believe that AI will magically get both better and cheaper and that the AI vendors will generously pass those savings on to their customers. People have been running this scam since Wonderbread was undercutting local bakeries but you can’t tell shit to an executive on a bubble high.
The real innovation of these LLM companies has been to find laws that don't exist, assume this equates to social consent for their business practices, and then tilt the lever of corrupt operations all the way up. And it's having tremendously awful consequences for people unfortunate enough to be in the sphere of their operations: whether it's a teen or an adult getting psychotic from using the product, or a homeowner who has to hear noise pollution 24/7, or someone whose power bill is up 30%.
They've done everything in their power to make people hate them, and the assumption is that Donald's administration will rescue them. (And it might.) As usual, the extent of your power is local, and hopefully your local laws give you the means to fight back, because no one at the state or federal level here in the US honestly gives a shit.
hopefully your local laws give you the means to fight back
The power of laws depends on the consent of the governed. If most people comply, law enforcement can keep the rest in check.
Protests against unfair laws need to be backed by popular support. There may be many people who disagree with a policy, but don't actively resist: They're worried they'll stand alone, tell themselves it's not that bad or simply arent passionate enough about it. But if a movement manages to recruit enough people, prove tenacious and create the impression that they're not going away any time soon, lawmakers and -enforcement will eventually have to make concessions.
For that recruitment, the protests need to be precise in their disruption and unambiguous in their message. The people gluing themselves to roads for example fail to actually target the oil industry and instead obstruct people that just want to get to work. The people protesting segregation by peacefully sitting somewhere they're not supposed to had more success because they didn't actually cause enough damage to warrant the violent response, which motivated more people to participate (and to some degree vindicated groups willing to use non-peaceful means).
In that vein, protests should target the immediately visible damaging parts of the data centers: Disrupt their water and power supply. Protests against abstract social effects are harder to see the connection of (though they could supplement the directly visible ones).
Protests don't need to be legal, if there is no legal recourse available, to be effective. They just need to be well-thought-out and -coordinated. (Do be safe about it, don't plan them openly and all that)
It’s a cult
We really gotta stop having those
Sadly, those same instincts to form nonsensical cults is also how we cooperated well enough and long enough to get to where we are now as a species.
What if and hear me out on this we tried to improve instead of just finding excuses to suck
For sure.
When you figure out how to keep people from falling into toxic cults that want nothing more than to manipulate their followers and/or end humanity, let me know.
People who improve past the lizard brain/stone age way of thinking to escape from and recognize cults, generally aren't the kind of people who we're worried about in the first place.
Teach critical thinking nurture robust inner life get their needs met by a sane external community inclusivity useful too its more preventative
'American rebellion' LOL