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It’s not the tool that’s the problem. It’s the capitalists controlling it.

The luddites didn’t oppose technology just for the sake of it. They opposed the use of it to displace workers. And there is absolutely a role for AI in all this that doesn’t involve anyone losing their jobs, if we can change who is in control of it.

Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing what can be done with the tech to make each person’s experience unique, with bespoke quests and dialogue. Maybe one day playing a game like Skyrim for 10 years doesn’t have to mean playing the same quests over and over. It’ll be cool comparing how our playthroughs differ from each other, as the AI changes the game to suit each person.

If the working class doesn't have work, the working class doesn't have the money to buy the shit the CEOs have their companies put out, which will have the CEOs lose money.

But CEOs don't think that far ahead. Because their bean counting education didn't teach that.

Well yeah, AI is a tool for the wealthy to remove economic opportunities from the working class.

Now get back in the mine, slave.

"Hey, let's go eat the rich, soldier!"

-Karlach from my daydreams

"eXtRaCt VaLuE!!1"

ruins everything

"wHeRe MoNeY gO@!?"

Rinse, repeat, etc.

AI could have some pretty cool uses as an enhancement to voice actors. Imagine all of the NPCs in an RPG being able to say the customized name of your character aloud instead of everyone using a title or nickname that you were assigned. It's a real shame that we have to use everything for evil instead.

If anyone here is playing KC:D2, the actor for Hans Capon (Luke Dale) made a mini-docu on the threat of AI to voice acting. I thought it was well edited and presented the problem in a very digestible way for those who know little about AI, so here it is for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/R55QzK8Hles

The problem is the way they're pushing the tools as magic lamps, and shoving them down everyone's throats.

AI is a really neat tool that got dragged into an incredibly toxic system that enshittified it. Not a useful tool to help development, no, skip straight to replacing employees even if it doesn’t freaking work.

I had a thought earlier in the bathroom about AI. It's like building a fancy indoor toilet when you don't have plumbing.

If people's basic needs were met, housing food health care all that, then it wouldn't really matter as much if people want to fuck around with AI. People who do things for passion could still do so.

But we live in a capitalist hell, this AI stuff will primarily benefit the ownership class while everyone else suffers.

I don't need a fancy toilet. I need clean running water.

The lifeless performances will come through in the end product. Wish them nothing but the worst.

I'm about half way through Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, a book about the Luddites, and one of the things he's emphasised quite a lot is the complaints of people at the time about the lower quality of automated textiles compared to artisan-made ones.