Machines should Work. People should Think Discord: PixelCanuck
Alberta, Canada
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Brandon retweeted
No. AI is not at all like going from a carriage to a car. Both the carriage and the car needed a human to drive them. It’s just that with the car the human is going faster and farther. AI removes the human from the equation completely. That’s what people aren’t grasping. This technology is different in kind from anything else that has ever existed or ever been invented in the entire history of humanity. Prior to this, we invented better tools for humans to use. Now the tool has its own brain and doesn’t need humans at all.
Brandon retweeted
This is such a dumb objection. First of all, many of the warnings and dire predictions about industrialization and automation absolutely DID come to pass. Second, even if they didn’t, that doesn’t mean the critics are wrong about AI. “People falsely predicted that a certain technology will harm humanity therefore no technology will ever harm humanity” is basically the argument you’re making. Very dumb.
Brandon retweeted
It’s a RECESSION INTO ALL TIME HIGHS… for Main St
The AI cycle drives nominal GDP higher and Wall St higher, but that is only driving the high-end consumer spending in the high-end segments of the economy.
Re-acelleration for the Haves but NOT the Have-Nots
#InflationaryAssets
Brandon retweeted
My grandmother was on the Manhattan project fresh out of school with a BS, and worked with von Braun after that. I need a full masters with a research thesis to teach literally 9th grade science standards to nursing students at the community college. We've lost the plot
Brandon retweeted
Exactly. The “ things are inevitable” excuse is psychotic. It’s not pragmatic to say “things are inevitable” and use that as an excuse to me engage with said thing with abandon, especially if it’s harmful or evil. Thats how terrible acts are upheld and normalized by regular folks
Brandon retweeted
It's weird that we can all clearly see how AI is about to wipe out millions of jobs all at once, destroy every artistic field, make it impossible for us to discern reality from fiction, and destroy human civilization as we know it, and yet not one single thing is being done to stop it. We aren't putting up any fight whatsoever.
Brandon retweeted
"Write what you know" was good advice for novelists when most of them had been drafted, or hitchhiked across the country with drug-addled degenerates, or worked as a migrant rancher. It’s bad advice for people who mostly just know how to turn in homework assignments.
Brandon retweeted
So strange that OpenAI doesn't seem to think we have rights over the text, images, and video they stole for training but there certainly is a Sora watermark on every slop video their app makes.
Brandon retweeted
Can anyone name one societal advantage as AI takes over?
How does it better our lives?
All I see is:
Massive job losses/layoffs
Pollution
Energy drain raising electricity bills
Financial repression
It’s a big win for corporations and the 1%
A huge loss for the rest of us
Brandon retweeted
AI is like weed. Weed makes a lot of people think they are creative. AI makes a lot of people think they are building something useful
Brandon retweeted
And yet there isn't a single representative for any creative industry on Canada's new "AI Task Force."
Our govt is not interested in protecting our rights, but they have billions to help AI companies.
Tech can't be put "back in a bottle" but the way it's abused sure can.
Music industry asks MPs for action on unauthorized use of works by generative AI ctvnews.ca/entertainment/art…
Brandon retweeted
it’s funny that the main argument for AI is usually not that it’s good or useful, just that it’s inevitable so we might as well learn to live with it. even its advocates talk about it like it’s a plague
Brandon retweeted
"It's innevitable"
"Adapt or die"
"Embrace it or get left behind"
"The genie is out of the bottle."
"It'll get better, just wait."
"This is the worst it will ever be"
These things are said to get you to believe/fear you don't have agency to resist, question & criticize.
Brandon retweeted
Many replies wondering why someone would fund such an obvious social pollutant as spamming AI job applications and fake cover letters. The answer is seen in one of their earlier posts - after they get a user base and spam jobs with AI applications, they're going to hit up the employers to sell them the solution to the deluge as another AI product, but with enterprise pricing.
The goal is to completely break the traditional hiring pipeline by making "everyone apply to every job", then interpose themselves as a hiring middleman once human contact is impossible.
Sorce (@sorcejobs) is building Tinder for Jobs.
When you swipe right, AI navigates to the company’s website and applies on your behalf. It writes cover letters, too.
Congrats @marvy_101, @davidalade & @therealdajayi on the launch!
Brandon retweeted
"The gig work exchange site I use is full of AI-generated artwork I’m meant to fix — along with AI-generated job listings that don’t exist."
🔗 bloodinthemachine.com/p/arti…
Brandon retweeted
This is unintentionally a perfect example of the lack of creativity & skill involved in using much AI.
“be super creative, suddenly something super unexpected happens”
Brandon retweeted
All of our bills are going up. Rent. Utilities and electricity. Health care. Student debt payments aren't budging. Groceries and food. Child care. Everything is going up — except our damn wages.
