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I am ethically and morally opposed to gen AI as a concept. As far as the breaking point, let me explain. I've been a machinist for ~18 years. It's been really bad for the last 9 years and I've more or less had to live off of savings from the good years (those savings are basically gone).

I've just recently gotten legitimate job offers for ~$125 an hour remote because I own a CNC. The catch is that I have to record all of the CAM programming and machine time in order to train an AI to replace potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This fucking sucks. I'd love to sit on my ass forever at 43, but I absolutely fucking hate the potential that I could bring that would crush the working class and elevate the owning class.

I wish it wasn't this hard, because I really do believe in socialism and have labored hard for a long time to make it happen - but there's a chance I can put everything I have into true anarchism cause and make a legitimate difference.

Please help.

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[-] BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Someone else will be a Nazi if you decline. Does that sound reasonable?

[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago

That other person will be a Nazi if you accept, too. The job only goes to a finite number of people.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

Stop that. You are on the same side and you're both right. We need to fight as a group, not individually.

[-] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago

Yes and fighting is not "you might as well do it tbh"

[-] Cypher@aussie.zone 5 points 15 hours ago

Telling a man not to put food on his table is not a winning strategy.

[-] CheesyFingers@piefed.social -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Selling your values to the money-havers is not a winning strategy.

[-] waterwasamistake@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago

So you do not use up any fossil fuels? Only buying from anarchist co-ops? No Supermarkets for you? Only second hand clothing? O course your vegan too? And i really hope you don't pay rent to anyone!

EVERYONE is aiding the 1% there is no way not to. How convinient that YOUR support is morally fine and you are wise enough to judge others without actually knowing a damn thing.

This is NOT how to build community, this is not how you get enough people to vote left(you know the thing that we ACTUALLY need to change something) this is one major reason why peoole think the left is a joke.

Automation is coming no matter what and it isn't a problem when we manage to make left wing policies popular enough to run on and win, so we can tax the shit out of these companies and give the money back to the people in various forms.

Just stop with the blame game, ops decision does not make a difference at all for AI but he will not be more useful living on the street .

Is your dream for the future that everyone keeps being a wage slave ? Why not bring down all automation we had so far than?

[-] KimLuff@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Genuinely working on all of those things yeah! About to upgrade to an electric car actually lol. It's not perfect but me and my partner do try. I think you personally value your comfort a lot more than the safety and happiness of other people. There is in fact plenty of survival out there for the jobless and underemployed, in fact life improves!

[-] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 0 points 3 hours ago

lol good one

No, i will not stop. Building community wont fix this disaster world and everyone who perpetuates it should be relentlessly bullied.

Also: you're not working to build community with me so now I'm going to actively work against your interests 🥺🥺🥺 LOL

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 minutes ago

Building community is the ONLY thing that will stop the disaster that is capitalism.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Godwin’s Law in record time. Principles mean nothing if you’re starving to death on the street. Better to get your piece and put it to good work.

[-] helix@feddit.org -1 points 9 hours ago
[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 hours ago

Burning through savings and 43 equals food insecurity coming around the corner, or doing other shitty odd jobs.

They’re using Uber and door dash data to train ai too.

[-] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 20 hours ago

It wouldn't be the internet if someone didn't pull this one off the shelf. 👏

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