Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/47504963

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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.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    23·
    2 months ago

    Nonsense

    • Internet is here, there is no going back
    • Quantum Physics are here, there is no going back
    • Mobile Phones are here, there is no going back
    • Electricity is here, there is no going back

    Following the logic of the meme:

    AI is here and cannot be regulated and limited, like also not big corps, billonairs, corrupt politicians…

    Technology cannot be uninvented, it cannot be blamed for the evil, self-interested and stupid use without law and rules that is given to them, bad habits, bad laws, and abuse isn’t an valid simil to AI, but a human one.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Like how leaded gasoline, CFCs, and ActiveX cannot be uninvented and are still found everywhere? Regulation absolutely can restrict a technically society doesn’t want around, as can a move to alternative solutions.

      And that doesn’t mean it disappears entirely. Avgas is still leaded and CFCs are still being used in specific contexts like Teflon manufacturing. But they’re no longer everywhere. ActiveX is pretty much dead, though.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 months ago

        What I say, AI need regulation, but the problem to do it depends on politicians paid by big corps and old judges which confuse an remote control with an mobile phone

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Gonna seem real silly when the AI extinction bubble pops and all the survivors have to live locally on GPUs like they should have always been. Big fucking waste of everything.

  • Murse@slrpnk.net
    13·
    2 months ago

    But it is the future! A future filled with contaminated drinking water, and exponentially increasing heat.

    We all thought it was going to go down with us fighting some Terminator robots or some shit, but… naw they’re just poisoning and cooking us while we’re distracted by our 9-5s.

  • MartianRecon@lemmus.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    You’re telling me that a bunch of sociopathic nerds have trouble with consent? Color me shocked.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    6·
    2 months ago

    In a very real sense, there is much to undo. They’ve already constructed many data centers with on site natural gas power generation with zero license, regulation, or oversight one of which produces enough energy to power something like 75% of Texas. Still though, it is not inevitable!

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    2 months ago

    The most important difference is that “AI” doesn’t actually exist.

    So the comparisons to smoking, child labor, and the slave trade are not just silly. They’re somewhat offensive.

    The accuracy could be improved by using historical grifts like “theory of the humors” or similar. That’s the analogy.

    As it is, terrible meme.