• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    This is the underlying message of all this Billionaire giddiness: they can’t wait for AI to replace as many of these disgusting human workers as possible.

    They would replace every single one of us, if they could, and this administration will HELP them. If we end up with a 50% unemployment rate, they’ll just criminalize debt and unemployment, and put you in a work camp to be leased out as a Federal 13th Amendment Slave. They’ll probably even shorten it, and call them 13s.

    Of course, as 13s become common, even more paid jobs will be lost, and eventually most jobs will be done by AI, automation, or slaves, with a few humans in maintenance, software, development, and supervisory positions. The board room will remain all human, of course, even though they’d be the easiest to replace with AI.

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    AI expected to create efficiencies

    Couldn’t help but chuckle at that bullet point. We should know by now that AI creates lots of cognitive debt and unstable, vibe-coded software, as well as making people stupid. But one thing it absolutely doesn’t seem to do is make things more efficient long term.

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      See we replaced people with costs to run virtual people that would make oracle blush. Are the virtual people any good? Goodness no.

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    I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because for some fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.

    Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.

  • FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldOP
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    The layoffs could be as high as 20% of the company!

    We can’t keep rewarding Big Tech for choosing AI over people.

    We need to make the switch to support smaller & better businesses - reminder about purchasewithpurpose.io to help you get started.

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          Proton mail is swiss and is great. If by cloud you mean cloud storage it also has proton drive; if you mean aws, I don’t know though.

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        EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

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          Us tech is on a completely different level evil wise. Maybe it gets worse but in the moment EU tech is much less evil. Just listen to what the openai ceo says in interviews.

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          EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

          It’s not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are “European” they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.

          Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that’s something…

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    They’re throwing away the one asset that could dig them out of this hole, if only they’d admit they fucked up royally.

    This bubble won’t burst, it will explode.

    Any ideas for how we can hasten the end? I sure would like to stop them before they build more data centers.

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    Yet people STILL use Meta. Friends and family say switching is too hard. They are comfortable with this shit.