Technology

Knowledge based fields were historically a “safe space” for queer and disabled people. If you are just super fucking smart and could be a wizard in a programming language, or were a genius physicist, you could get to the point where you were too valuable to fire for being trans or disabled. I may be trans and an unperson in the place I live, but I can do calculus, and there’s no way they can take that away from me.

There’s an attack on knowledge itself going on right now. A desire by the rich to control information. They want to force us into an unreality where skill and knowledge are meaningless. This hurts people who are socially marginalized, because it takes away one of our few paths for economic survival.

It goes with the attacks on DEI. What they want is a tool that can replace the need for talent, so that they can select who gets to have jobs. They want all jobs to be Graeber’s “bullshit jobs” so that skill is meaningless and they can allot them out to the people they think “deserve” them.

Opposed people, or today who know what it's like to be oppressed, are more likely to recognize oppression.

AI is going to fuck us all at this rate. It's already begun. People are losing their jobs.

Man between this and the "AI vegan" bullshit article, they really want to get ahead on crushing any thought that AI is bad. At least by easily manipulated groups.

In the words of Miyazaki:

Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

Roughly 50% of transgender and/or non-binary people are software developers and roughly 50% are furry artists, so it makes sense we would be more wary of AI.

I use arch, btw.

That's because they're all on lemmy

outliers badly served by advanced averaging machine

Who knew

What kinda bullshit narrative is this?

These findings are consistent with a growing body of research showing how AI systems often misclassify, perpetuate discrimination toward or otherwise harmtrans and disabled people. In particular, identities that defy categorization clash with AI systems that are inherently designed to reduce complexity into rigid categories. In doing so, AI systems simplify identities and can replicate and reinforce bias and discrimination – and people notice.

Makes sense.

These systems exist to sand off the rough edges of real life artifacts and interactions, and these are people who’ve spent their whole lives being treated like an imperfection that just needs to be smoothed out.

Why would you not be wary?

Sounds like confirmarion bias.
I'd like to know the industry sector they are working in.
I'd say a high amount of them work in Tech and IT.

Well that explains a lot about Lemmy's strong dislike for AI with a burning passion.

AI is the new crypto by the ceos and c-suites, sorry but theres no market for it for a regular customer base, and they admitted its costing them alot more money using AI than actually saving or even profitting from it. its actually no wonder the people who fall for AI /crypto are mostly conservatives.

Oppressed people don't like the walled garden information tools made and profited from by the people using them as a scapegoat distraction for their fleecing of society?

Smart bunch it would seem.

Fuck AI

Ragebait

Disabled, vehemently anti-AI enby here. The only thing I'm good at professionally is being a great big brain, so taking knowledge work away from me makes me angry.

Actual computer scientists should also be included with those groups.

Because some are artisans and see that their work is being pillaged for AI "training".

Maybe only those are worthy to survive this technology addiction disease.

I'm none of those however I believe they are right to view it negatively. The rest of us should be just a wary.

I think a lot of women feel this way too