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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound
[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]
Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]
Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]
Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]
Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.
Look, I get pissed off at AI and the AI industry every day. I definitely don't hate it as much as some people, but I'm not a fan either.
That said, it seems like there's not many comic artists out there who are able to actually articulate a coherent and rational criticism of AI. 90% of anti-AI comics end up being weak, strawman, or just generally sort of confused and vague. It's shocking to me because it seems like the problems and ways to criticize it are so plain. But comics like this and many others show how silly, reactionary, and unthinking a lot of these complaints are. There can be such thing as overreacting to a bad thing, there can be such thing as being confused about what's bad about a bad thing, etc. And in the case of this comic we have confusion about the nature of the problem and about its solution.
Ngl, it really irritates me seeing these artists think they've served up epic poignant AI ownage when they've really just demonstrated their own poor thinking ability.
And I never cease to get amazed how many upvotes they get despite being logically incoherent. Kinda disappoints me to think the average lemming isn't any better at critical thinking than the tiktokers we love to make fun of.