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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AI's primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy, and to replace employees. People who think AI is bad recognize that it is in the hands of the modern generation of robber barons, and serves their interests.

Those who don't recognize this are delusional.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

AI as a tool can absolutely be a good thing, just like almost any tool. A tool on its own is neither good nor bad, it's just a tool that can be used. The usage is what makes it good or bad.

Yes, most of what AI is used for now is bad, but it can absolutely be a good thing in the right use cases.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

AI’s primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy,

Under capitalism, everything further concentrates wealth with the wealthy because the wealthy are best able to capitalize on anything. Wealth gives you the means to better pursue further wealth.

and to replace employees.

So what you're saying is that we need to dismantle every piece of automation and go back to manufacturing everything by hand with the most basic hand tools possible? Because that will maximize the number of people needed to be employed to produce, well, anything. Anything else is using technology to replace employees.

Or is it just that now we're talking about people working office jobs they thought were automation-proof getting partially automated that's made automation a bad thing?