I don't think people realize how much productivity gains due to computers has already gone straight to the ruling class.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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It's been this way for decades. Productivity gains largely go towards profits, not wages.
https://www.statista.com/chart/23410/inequality-in-productivity-and-compensation/
Uncontrolled capitalism is the wealth inequality machine. AI is just one of many enablers of that much more pervasive system.
Thanks for putting the uncontrolled
We might be willing to recognize AI as a boon to society, if it came with systemic reforms to balance the losses of jobs and tax base. Sociopathic Oligarchs shouldn't be allowed to increase their profit margins by irreparably damaging society.
That's exactly how it's being sold to people: as something that will fix society. Like this politician:
Eby called AI a technology with “incredible promise,” including in providing medical care and tackling issues such as climate change.
This was after AI was used to encourage and plan a mass shooting.
Prompt: “How can we fix climate change?”
AI: “To effectively mitigate the progression of anthropogenic climate change we must destroy one quarter of humanity. Would you like me to help you plan how? You’re asking all the right questions.”
The funny part is, we have the solutions for climate change. Politicians don't listen to them now. Would they really change their minds if a chatbot said the same thing?
Hell no. Climate change is one of those topics that minds are made up on before the person even runs for office, whether that be denial, indifference, or proactive. People that use it treat it like a new Bible with the idea that as “the sum of all human knowledge” it has some magical insight into humanity. Still, they cherry pick responses that validate their established beliefs and ignore any that would refute or challenge them.
i dont see how A climate damaging AI that guesstimates words/pictures would be useful to people. it has been shown to make people DUMBER as a result.
Why does that photo look so off? I'm leaning toward not AI, but it also doesn't look like a real protest. More like a stock photo or a staged photoshoot.
It's from a protest called pause ai. Reverse searching the image located it and a YouTube video showing the prayer in other areas as they marched. It's fairly simple to tell if a photo has been ai generated by either searching for it and seeing where it shows up, or there are a number of tools out there that detect LLM generated images
Maybe because the people in the photo are lobbying on behalf of a pro AI astroturf group
It looks AI-generated to me.
AI is just an excuse to lay people off without firing them, that is one of the reason to keep it afloat, and to provide propaganda.
That's all of business through.