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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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All their responses are generated, no conscience there, just AI. "Another brick in the wall" hits stronger than ever now.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

For those who say "what about ethical uses of AI?" and "but what if it actually useful?":

Two things can be true at the same time:

  1. Technology is legitimately useful.
  2. Technology is so harmful it shouldn't exist.

We didn't "cancel" asbestos for an all-around better material. We got rid of it wherever we could due to the harms of it. AI is harming our society, since it attempts to replace human communication with technology.

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago) (1 children)

All the outrage about AI around here is the outrage that should have been targeted towards social media in the past 10 years. The corporations that want to control societies communication while injecting their nefarious plots are already doing so.

Very few critics hit the point, which is the tech Bros utopia is to make us all superfluous as workers. That is the story we should challenge, and not lazily repeat criticism that doesn't reflect the real world.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

All the outrage about AI around here is the outrage that should have been targeted towards social media in the past 10 years

Agreed, but AI has grown the movement against them. So we are where we are.

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I don't see that

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

when AI poses an actual threat to quality of life, whether it's access to affordable power, water, ram, gpus etc., it should always take the back seat.

Not this stupid silly bullshit: