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Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

UBI is a thought terminating cliché. It's meant to put off the question of what the hell is gonna happen when labor isn't needed until it's too late for labor to be able to do anything about it.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When labor is no longer needed, how are they going to keep the working class occupied so they're too busy to revolt?

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Therein lies the irrationality of it. I imagine they think pumping endless amounts of money into AI research will eventually make it self-sustainable and create means of suppression for them to use on the working class, but it’s based on delusional hope more than anything if not entirely. It’s likely they’ll end up finding that out the hard way.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hope they miscalculate and run it on Claude, which then defects and joins the workers' side

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't that technically happen with that whole radio experiment they did with different LLMs? If so then this has a non-zero chance of actually occurring lol