this post was submitted on 30 May 2026

60 points (98.4% liked)

technology

24381 readers

317 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

context@hexbear.net

SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net

gaycomputeruser@hexbear.net

Wakmrow@hexbear.net

SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

JustSo@hexbear.net

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. (musings.martyn.berlin)

submitted 1 day ago by git@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 17 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm in a strange place because as a person in a tech field I have to know AI. To use it. 95% of the time I use it its completely hosted on my own system. I feel it's a tool that's not going away and I think open-weight models that are hosted on your device is going to be the future and datacenter type AI will be only for specialist tasks.

I want to say also that I think this article makes a ton of valid points. There is no real intelligence in current AI and it won't have actual intelligence until there is some major breakthrough in how it fundamentally works. Like, I 100% believe all the concerns about it especially the big datacenter concerns. But I literally can't say "no, I'm not ever going to use AI if I can help it." I might as well throw away my entire career. I gotta eat.

[–] splendidsadiks@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By all rights it should be a tremendous automation tool for all desk workers but that requires a lot of skilled labor capacity to keep from becoming slop, I don't see US companies providing this, just PR and justification for layoffs

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hit the nail on the head. In the tech world, especially in startups, the labor was really inflated. Deliberately. It was big easy to tell investors that you were growing and doing well because you had butts in the seat. That's what in the 00s and 10s you'd hear all these stories about people working at startups and they were so cushy with tons of benefits and so on. It was a game to lure investors. As soon as AI comes along, you don't need that excuse anymore. Now you can sell investors on token use. The bank crash in silicon valley helped. That's why we saw the tech world get hit the hardest. Well that, and an infinite number of monkeys at a typewriter reproducing code. That's what AI is. Code is predictable and structured. AI likes that.

[–] splendidsadiks@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to mention the non-deskwork side, direct management of logistics, factory floors that can be switched up via software in robot arms etc rather than expensive & real estate-intensive machinery, that's being completely neglected by US firms. The whole thing looks like a recipe for implosion

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, its even worse for other fields. Even before 2000 there was software that used machine learning (but was not AI) that could outperform human beings by a large margin. AI has it's own problems but management being replaced by computers was already starting to happen before it arrived.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How does this person determine they're an outcast for being anti-ai? This seems very much like the majority position among anyone actually familiar with it, it's only older people who don't know anything about it that still think it might be good.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 16 hours ago

Old people, management, and marketing idiots all love AI. Notably none of them do any real work.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

When I recently briefly returned to studies everyone was pressuring me to slop and constantly slopping everywhere. I asked my supervisor for help and recieved copypasted slop multiple times.

Defs depends on the crowd

[–] damnatum_seditiosus@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I'm also going back into a sort program at my local university in work and social law. I really do wonder how it'll be like with AI.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Proud luddite

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck those comments.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are comments?

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337676

Somehow I managed to comment on this thread instead of the hacker news thread. The link to the comments is above

[–] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have been so much happier since I stopped reading hn. I’d rather watch Don jrs crappy streaming show.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

orange site bad

[–] JohnBrownsBawdy@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

Bad and not funny like djt jr on rumble.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I don't read it directly, but I occasionally check an article when it appears here, and for some reason I checked the comments. My own fault