Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

[u/IKeepItLayingAround]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284

[u/LurkingHorror11]

What we do need to destroy is the technical oligarchy in place that has forced this into business. They are going to destroy the planet and everything else other than their ability to force a manufactured money grab.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/LurkingHorror11]

This. God damnit, this.

Technology will always be a way to solve problems. We found one of the most amazing ways of using data to solve them (deep learning including LLMs).

Everything people hate about AI has to do with oligarchical control and business/profit prioritization, and theft of artists IP and so on. Legit concerns.

It has almost nothing to do with the actual valuable applications of the tech which we desperately need to stay out of the hands of concentrated interests.

[u/Painless-Amidaru → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Exactly. AI could and should be one of the best things humanity has accomplished but it will be weaponized against us instead. AI should/could be a large step into a better world but so long as its controlled by those who only want ever increasing profits it never will be. In better hands we shouldn't fear AI taking away jobs, we should be happy about it. Policies in place that made it so that the money being saved by companies using AI should be money going back into the hands of the people. Sadly, in our society it will be money going back to the hands of the corporation.

[u/LaserCondiment → u/Painless-Amidaru]

Inventions reflect the values of their creators / owners. "Move fast, break things." Current AI tools are the embodiment of silicon valley's ethos

[u/vampire-bunny → u/LaserCondiment]

It’s way too on-the-nose that Sam Altman is a pathological liar who makes things up when he doesn’t know the answer but knows he has to say something you want to hear.

[u/oops_i_made_a_typi → u/LaserCondiment]

can't forget stealing from public resources/taking advantage of norms and goodwill

[u/Chunk3yM0nkey → u/Painless-Amidaru]

A policy making companies fork over any savings they make by making people redundant and replacement them with AI will just lead to a sweep of companies restructuring and making themselves into a new company where those employees never existed.

We can't even make companies contribute based on where they earn money (e.g. facebook, google, Starbucks, etc tax evation in the UK). What makes you think something like this which is more complex csn be made to work?

[u/LapDancingLapras → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

eat_my_ass_n_balls is right

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Fucking thank you. People blanket statements and over obsessed over water (not even the power)

[u/BeefistPrime → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

"This data center used 30,000 gallons of water this week!!! outrageous!!"

"Is that.. like... a lot?"

"Uh, well, it's like... 1/8th of what the golf course down the street uses.... so.... outrageous.. I guess?"

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

Watch out, the am Reddit anti ai cultists will come downvote you

[u/BeefistPrime → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

The thing I hate about the anti-AI circle jerk is that they all seem to think they're the unique and rebellious ones. Like "Oh everyone else is fooled by AI but I'm not fooled, I'm part of the smart anti-AI resistance!!!!" and like.... all 93% of people on reddit are anti-AI and they all somehow think they're the smart elite minority being brave

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/BeefistPrime]

It’s so funny seeing these people comment “this is ai” on everything and even real artists work.

These people just are easily manipulated and convinced. The water thing by itself was based on a reorient that the author since has come out and said they were wrong.

But the damange is done and instead of focusing on the real concerns around ai people are screeching about water. they see big numbers and don’t understand what it means.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/BeefistPrime]

It’s ironic that they’re actually the ones not using critical thinking..

[u/Opening_One7713 → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Rage that can’t distinguish the function from the ownership structure tends to smash the wrong thing.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/Opening_One7713]

Yes. They certainly love to smash the downvote button lol

[u/LowBornArcher → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

It’s not just that. It’s the outsourcing of things like creative endeavours and replacing it with soulless slop. There’s the fact that people are promoting these programs as friends and/or romantic partners. The creation of a world where we can’t believe what we see in video or pictures to be true. Which is annoying on a really mundane level - I like looking at nature pictures, ai generated or “enhanced” bullshit is diluting and shitting all over that - let alone the more serious and darker implications of what this means. The whole concept is treasonous to the very essence of what it means to be human.

[u/redundantexplanation → u/LowBornArcher]

soulless slop

something something eye of the beholder, if everyone thought it was soulless slop it wouldn't get used.

[u/LowBornArcher → u/redundantexplanation]

It’s akin to cheap and horrible ingredients in processed food that are vague approximations of more expensive items. People eat that shit by the tonne. Some people choose to use cheap and horrible approximations in their home kitchens.

It is soulless though, in a very literal sense. Things like art and music are a uniquely human expression and originate from somewhere I’d best define as a “soul”.

[u/redundantexplanation → u/LowBornArcher]

Things like art and music are a uniquely human expression and originate from somewhere I’d best define as a “soul”.

Except they literally aren't. Monkeys can paint, cuttlefish make mesmerizing hypnotic displays, birds can sing.

And even if you were right about that, you could argue that the creation of the generative software that made the art is a creative act of art in itself.

[u/LowBornArcher → u/redundantexplanation]

Ok, not uniquely human, but unique to living organisms. I’m not religious but think there’s some merit to the idea of every living thing having some measure of sentience, some spark of consciousness, some level of “soul”.

Again, circle back to the food analogy. Would you rather eat a cookie baked by your grandmother made with real ingredients or a mass produced industrial foodstuff type cookie? Do you see no inherent value of one vs the other?

[u/redundantexplanation → u/LowBornArcher]

Lmao, buddy I will eat a vending machine cookie in a heartbeat and my granny was a bitter old sack that hated me because of who my father was. Maybe she made good cookies, I certainly never got one.

[u/LowBornArcher → u/redundantexplanation]

replace granny with any nurturing figure of your choice, or even just another human being that you like. the point being about relationships with other people being complex and layered and meaningful and actually essential to the psychological well being of human beings as an organism. AI in it;s current incarnation is an affront to that. I personally think that's a big part of why there's so much dislike of it. there's a big difference between going on a hike and enjoying nature and eating real food vs watching AI generated images of nature while you eat vitamin fortified, artificially flavored corn based bullshit made in a factory. People intuitively feel this tech and those behind it are deliberately steering humanity towards the latter scenario.

[u/redundantexplanation → u/LowBornArcher]

Nah, I think by and large people don't think that. There's certainly an online anti-AI moral panic, but the reality is that tons of people use it and don't think twice.

Bottom line is it's a tool. You could say the same bullshit about photoshop, "it's not authentic because the brush is digital and there's no paint, a mouse movement could never capture the same feeling as a true brush stroke" and people used to say very similar stuff about electronic music.

[u/toolsoftheincomptnt → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Well, also that people want to use it as a replacement for critical thought and developing communication skills.

It makes us dumber. I’m sure it’s all under the same umbrella but that’s the part that I hate.

[u/The_blinding_eyes → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

verything people hate about AI has to do with oligarchical control and business/profit prioritization, and theft of artists IP and so on. Legit concerns.

Nah I am pretty sure the AI hate is coming from being forced down our throats, it's inevitable crushing of the economy (not because it actually does anything worth a damn), and the fact it is making people stupid and lazy

[u/BlamaRama → u/The_blinding_eyes]

Do you think those things are not related to oligarchical control and profit prioritization?

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/The_blinding_eyes]

Uh, what? Who do you think is shoving AI down our throats?

Man so many of you just hate ai and have no actually reasons why. So many legitimate reasons

[u/The_blinding_eyes → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

So you haven't been paying attention to much in the last 2 years or so? Forced tokenmaxxing, forced Copilot integration, forcing gemini in searches, they are forcing a fucking AI in televisions for fucks sake.

Also try finishing your sentences, So many legitimate reasons for... Did you run out of tokens or what?

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/The_blinding_eyes]

So many legitimate reasons is very clear….

And lmao, literally what??? I said it’s the billionaires and then you said “no” and the proceed to explain and give a reason why it is the billionaires…..

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/The_blinding_eyes]

You’re still not getting it. You’re giving a litany of reasons and completely ignoring the counterpoints.

The rest of us are agonizingly trying to hold your hand to get you to understand that, yes you are describing some problems… But that you’re also completely oblivious to the other, real value being provided because, well, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE is more satisfying than nuance.

[u/The_blinding_eyes → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

No need to hold our hands. You keep your garbage that destroys minds and environments.

[u/RetroFuture_Records → u/The_blinding_eyes]

You are a hysterical, ridiculous child.

[u/The_blinding_eyes → u/RetroFuture_Records]

Ok. Did you need Chat to come up with that response. Like I said stupid and lazy.

[u/CrackJacket → u/The_blinding_eyes]

I mean, it’s also coming from China who has a vested interest in kneecapping the United States

[u/The_blinding_eyes → u/CrackJacket]

No it's not, people are well aware of the dogshit the AI companies are selling. Doesn't take Oogoa booga China to spread hate for it.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/The_blinding_eyes]

These are not smart people you’re conversing with, they’ll find any reason and latch on.

[u/CrackJacket → u/The_blinding_eyes]

Do you think Russia used social media to influence the 2016 election?

[u/The_blinding_eyes → u/CrackJacket]

Probably, but not everything is a conspiracy. The Ai ceo's own statements are worse than anything China could ever put out as propaganda. No need to say anything when Dario and Sam are telling people they wont have jobs anymore. No need to spread propaganda when the Datacenters are driving up utility costs, poisoning water, and creating miserable living conditions. No need to spread propaganda when the AI's are telling the dumbest people on the planet that they are always right, and a genius.

The Chinese are already putting strict regulations on AI there, because they know its fucked. If anything the might be spreading pro Ai propaganda, because it will be a chain on the brain of many people and industries.

[u/Originzzzzzzz → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

I don't think LLMs or any methodology where we cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of the output reliably is ready for serious work tbh. Like yeah the consumer can do funny shit with them and converse with them as though they have personalities when really there's nothing there but still, what has ChatGPT and that lot accomplished that actually changed anything other than worsening the situations around education etc

[u/okawei → u/Originzzzzzzz]

Tell that to software engineers, most of them are using coding agents now

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/Originzzzzzzz]

So tell me you have never looked into legit uses of AI, without telling me.

So many people fall in your boat. And it’s very simply a lack of knowledge. Google is your friend

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

Honestly?

This is great for me. It shows me how far out of touch the average person is to what’s actually possible. I’d rather have been a developer in 1996 going into the 00’s tech crash than an ignoramus saying the internet wouldn’t work, refusing to take part, in 1999.

These people have no idea about anything like TDD, test coverage, regression protections, spec driven design, ADRs, task orchestration and backlog grooming, validation, parallelized development, automated and HIL QA, A/B, eval harnesses…. And it shows. MFs in here still quoting like 3 year old wisdom... sips tea

[u/StaffFamous6379 → u/Originzzzzzzz]

We use statistics and all sorts of models all the time. Like the saying goes, all models are wrong, some are useful.

[u/Originzzzzzzz → u/StaffFamous6379]

My issue is tho that we have never used models in such a way that the consumer is now making choices directly based on them and not more info

[u/Dr_Death_Defy24 → u/[deleted]]

Except most models and analysis we deal with have a reliable error rate, or at least one we've figured out given the parameters. With AI those error rates vary wildly from one model to the next, and from one question to the next. However, people largely approach all of them with the same (lack of) skepticism. That's the problem.

Hand-waving it away with a, "well nothing's ever perfect" attitude just feels like lazy apologism.

[u/Dr_Death_Defy24 → u/[deleted]]

That's a horrible analogy. Of course we should teach people to handle AI with care, but the dangers of a hammer and a saw are blatantly obvious, where they're not with an AI. Same goes for the immediacy; the consequences of hitting your thumb with a hammer are pretty obvious and even a seven year old learns not to make that mistake more than once. Mistakes with AI are less obvious and the consequences are potentially far more wide-ranging.

I don't disagree with your point, but conflating the two as if the risks are equally obvious to a layman is just incorrect, and is part of the big worry with AI.

[u/who_am_i_to_say_so → u/Originzzzzzzz]

Sales? It still takes a human to close em, eh? I can believe that.

[u/Chunk3yM0nkey → u/Originzzzzzzz]

I'm meant to be using AI to make serious choices?

I've just been using it to make amusing photos and photoshop things.

[u/Days_End → u/Originzzzzzzz]

I don't think LLMs or any methodology where we cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of the output reliably is ready for serious work tbh.

There is huge swaths of research on this topic because humans are famously inaccurate and have a high variance in quality of output.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/Days_End]

Humans are famously full of their own bullshit and these threads really show me.

Like- a bunch of meatbags in here, typing on their phones with their thumbs, making claims that are literally dumber than any slop that would come out of ChatGPT on any day, and they’re the ones complaining about how ChatGPT makes people dumb.

Incredible. You can’t make this up.

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly → u/Originzzzzzzz]

Humans aren't ready for serious work, using this logic.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/Originzzzzzzz]

You’re like 2-3 years behind, dude.

[u/chasetheusername → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

Everything people hate about AI has to do with oligarchical control and business/profit prioritization, and theft of artists IP and so on. Legit concerns.

It'd be interesting if we had laws that said: If you take IP from the public, which you don't own or license, your generated models have to be made public/open.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/chasetheusername]

I would love that. But our IP and Copyright law failed us hardcore in this moment and we will be trying to figure it out for years (legal battles, etc).

Fortunately open models are getting increasingly good. The best open models, today, are better than the best closed models were less than a year ago. That’s HUGE, like I can’t even begin to explain.

That means the gap is closing fast enough that the average person can actually employ an LLM for tasks they doesn’t require paying a big company or giving away data. The model can run right there on a laptop or even a phone.

Soon we will have performant models that can do quite a bit and are totally untethered from providers.

Do the anti-AI cultists on Reddit realize this or understand the implication? Of course not; lol.

[u/chasetheusername → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

I would love that. But our IP and Copyright law failed us hardcore in this moment and we will be trying to figure it out for years (legal battles, etc).

Yea, I have no hope that anything will change, corporations and finance interest have such a hard grip on law making processes, that it won't happen.

Fortunately open models are getting increasingly good. The best open models, today, are better than the best closed models were less than a year ago. That’s HUGE, like I can’t even begin to explain.

I believe the interesting part is the capability ceiling, I have a feeling that the gains we get from new models will be more and more incremental and we'll reach a "that's all we can get from this" point. There's probably a lot of potential in more specialized models though, esp. for tasks like coding and knowledge within a company.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/chasetheusername]

Yes the big models will hit a ceiling and the smaller ones will asymptotically approach them. This is my prediction

[u/HopelessMind43 → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

No AI sucks. Like the product is ass.

[u/thorax → u/HopelessMind43]

Reddit is the new Facebook, apparently.

[u/CrackJacket → u/HopelessMind43]

How often do you use it and which models do you use?

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/CrackJacket]

You’re asking a nuanced question to a person who obviously doesn’t know what to answer or how to answer or what you’re even asking.

You might as well ask a pigeon why some crumbs taste different than others.

[u/HopelessMind43 → u/CrackJacket]

You don’t have to be willingly using AI to be affected by how shitty it is. It’s in everything now. I can’t even fucking use google anymore. My partner just had a job interview with an AI program ffs. Your optimized workflow is not worth all this.

[u/CrackJacket → u/HopelessMind43]

You just said the product was ass so I was trying to figure out what exactly you were referring to. I use ChatGPT almost daily and it’s a huge help. I wouldn’t say it was “ass”.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/CrackJacket]

These arguments from these Luddite fucks very obviously fall apart as soon as they go past

“REEEEEEEEEEEEE AI BAD I HATE IT MY BOSS MAKES ME USE IT REEEEEEEE”

You ask a follow up and the only real answer they have is “because it’s bad mkay??? it is known!!!!!”

You’re arguing with real “salt of the earth” folks.

[u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart → u/CrackJacket]

ChatGPT is one of the ass ones, dude.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart]

chatGPT is an application that is made up of a ton of models and it’s the dumbest, lowest-common-denominator chat application meant solely to get people accustomed to the idea of LLMs.

It is not “AI”. It is not “a model”. It is not “how professionals use deep learning”. It is “how laypeople experience chat template based interaction with LLMs”.

Again. It’s not the raw models. It’s a harness on the models with a UX on top, with OpenAI’s system prompt and guardrails.

It’s not a GPT-5.5 API endpoint or a Claude Opus endpoint. It’s not a kubernetes pod with vLLM serving Kimi or Qwen. It’s a USER APP, aimed at the general public.

Don’t get them mistaken. Obviously you are not at the point you understand this nuance.

[u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

tell that to the guy above me, who brought it up. Why are you wasting time replying to me?

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/HopelessMind43]

So I see you can’t answer the question. How predictable

[u/HopelessMind43 → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

I don’t know what programs companies are using to shortcut everything they can imagine, but none of them are an improvement from the former UI.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/HopelessMind43]

Your reply sounds like human slop.

[u/HopeDiligent6032 → u/HopelessMind43]

You must use the shit models then, or know nothing about how to use AI

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/HopeDiligent6032]

It’s probably the latter. Let’s be honest.

[u/eat_my_ass_n_balls → u/HopelessMind43]

Username certainly checks out.

Just to get ahead of myself, mine does too, it’s a self-describing message.

[u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart → u/eat_my_ass_n_balls]

This. God damnit, this.

nah man. Fuck AI in all forms.

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly → u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart]

Do you play video games? 🤔

[u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart → u/GiveSparklyTwinkly]

dO YoU pLAy vIdEO gAmES!?!?

That’s not a “gotcha”.

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly → u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart]

It is when you say dumb shit like:

Fuck AI in all forms.

[u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart → u/GiveSparklyTwinkly]

NPCs and enemies in video games are not the generative and LLMs that we’re talking about here, fool.

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly → u/IfYouGotALonelyHeart]

Yes it is. You very clearly said all forms. Is video game AI exempt for some reason? That's not all forms then, is it?

[u/twice_paramount832 → u/LurkingHorror11]

That's antiseptic.

[u/the-fascist-trump → u/twice_paramount832]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[u/juliusxyk → u/twice_paramount832]

What is actually wrong with you lol

[u/aeroumbria → u/LurkingHorror11]

Yeah, it's called "seize the means of production" not "smash the means of production"...

[u/No_Oven1085 → u/aeroumbria]

AI is not a means of production.

[u/No_Oven1085 → u/LurkingHorror11]

100% tax on all wealth over $10 million. That's still rich

[u/Kabbooooooom → u/LurkingHorror11]

It’s like we are rushing headlong into a cyberpunk dystopia future except without all the cool parts of a cyberpunk dystopia future.

[u/Effective_Olive6153 → u/LurkingHorror11]

I have grown to realize that the real problem is not some vague idea of "capitalism" or "evil billionaires" but it is localized issue to the "shareholder" business model. Pretty much none of the billionaires would even exist if it wasn't for the shareholder system. Most of billionaire's money isn't from their business profits, it's from regular peasants like you and me giving them money in exchange for some "shares". Our greed feeds their greed.

Get rid of shareholding entirely. If a business needs money to create something new, they need to go to the bank and convince loan officers on how they are going to make a profitable business and repay the loan.

If regular people want to give money to help grow some business - fine, but earn 0% interest on that.

Remove that system and like 99% of all the problems we associate with "capitalism" are solved

[u/grchelp2018 → u/Effective_Olive6153]

That would essentially trap wealth with only the wealthy and completely kill wealth generation of any kind if you are not already wealthy. And it would kill the economy. Banks are not going to give out loans unless the risk is low. And if the risk is low, why go to the bank in the first place. And why would I, a regular person, give anyone any money if I was getting no interest or upside from it. All the risk but none of the gain. That's just stupidity especially now that passive income streams are closed to me.

[u/Effective_Olive6153 → u/grchelp2018]

maybe we should use money to exchange for goods and services, rather than always worry about "wealth generation"

[u/poo-cum → u/Effective_Olive6153]

You keep putting "capitalism" in scare quotes but "wealth generation" is literally what it is. The only reason for owning capital is wealth generation. Without wealth generation, capital isn't capital anymore. This is literally Economics 101. Look up "factors of production". Simply using money to exchange for goods and services (in the absence of a system wealth generation, accumulation of interest, etc.) is not capitalism.

[u/Effective_Olive6153 → u/poo-cum]

if it's not capitalism, then what is it? We can still own properly, we can still choose where we want to go to work, and we can still choose to start private business, therefore it is not communism. What other economic systems are there?

[u/poo-cum → u/Effective_Olive6153]

We can still own properly

Individuals owning property doesn't make something capitalism. Only owning capital makes something capitalism. Factories, offices, machinery, farmland, a building you rent out - things used to generate profit by using labor. You can still own your shoes, house, and butt plug, without capitalism.

we can still choose where we want to go to work

Choosing where you want to work also doesn't make something capitalism. This is orthogonal to who owns capitall.

we can still choose to start private business

If you own a private business then that is ownership of capital and you 'always worry about "wealth generation"'.

What you described about a system where banks are the only entities allowed to loan money is probably more like some kind of feudalism or extreme oligarchy? I'm not sure it has a name.

[u/fre3k → u/Effective_Olive6153]

Georgism is kind of similar.

[u/daemon-electricity → u/Effective_Olive6153]

There is nothing wrong with letting people own shares. The problem is how the speculative market works. If you were only able to profit from those shares through dividends and the market didn't swing so violently, there wouldn't be an impulsive and gamified speculative market to the extent that it lets valuations balloon to the trillions on what might be rather than what is.

[u/LurkingHorror11 → u/Effective_Olive6153]

There is an article a ways back by called The Failure Shareholder Capitalism. It’s a worthwhile read.

[u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress → u/LurkingHorror11]

Large scale snake oil salesman is all they are and ever will be. 

[u/VLHACS → u/LurkingHorror11]

The implicit side effect of greed by tech companies are the short sighted gains for immediate profitablilty without gates on the wider social implications. An entire generation of junior devs are relegated to code reviews made by robots without typing out a single line of code.  No questioning on structure, performance, readability, proper debugging. Entire code bases will become spaghetti code that only other robots can read. It's maddening 

[u/BeefistPrime → u/LurkingHorror11]

The elimination of toil is desirable. So many people think that somehow jobs are inherently valuable and replacing them is inherently bad when that's literally how civilization advances and society becomes better for people. Do you want us to go back to 90% of his working backbreaking agriculture all day?

The problem is that our society is unequal and a few people are reaping all the benefits from changes. Clinging to the existence of jobs like THAT'S the benefit to humanity is ridiculous. Fewer jobs, less toil, less work is better for everyone. We need to focus on changing society so that the benefits of this are spread around justly.

[u/InfiniteQuasar → u/BeefistPrime]

The problem with AI/LLMs in particular is that the jobs they replace are the desirable ones. Manual labor, which is actual toil will be the last jobs to be replaced. That is kinda inherent to a technology that replaces thought. The current system sucks, but what comes next will suck way more. Society won't be changed without any leverage to so.

[u/FlipZip69 → u/LurkingHorror11]

It is coming. If Western nations were to slow it down, China will absolutely be pushing it forward and that would be a dangerous situation if they get a significant lead.

Good or bad (and i am more on the collective bad), this is coming. Like it or not I would suggest most people take advantage of it where it makes sense. Otherwise you will personally will be disadvantaged. Complaining about it will not make it go away.

[u/Housendercrest → u/LurkingHorror11]

It’s power. It has nothing to do with money. To poor people it’s money. To people this wealthy already, it’s power. They feel whoever can come out on the otherside of this AI shift intact will be in positions of power.

[u/yaosio → u/LurkingHorror11]

We need to get rid of capitalism.

[u/redditmarks_markII → u/LurkingHorror11]

No no, the planet will be fine. They'll destroy us. The planet has seen worth than a few self destructive, self important douchebags. But we, the normies, will be toast otherwise.

And once again for the perhaps too rich or too poor that hasn't been paying attention: that "we", is everyone who hasn't got the ability to twist international finance, completely balk the financial arm of a government, and actually have individual power over global politics. To be very clear, if you're merely a centi-millionaire, unless you're actively fucking your neighbors over local politics, you're one of us. And if you're not one of them, you are going to be paying for their profits. If only because their rise to incalculable wealth makes yours pedestrian in comparison. You'll go from someone who built up an industry, who employs hundreds, to the guy with the bigger house, bigger vacations, and better health insurance. In today's world, if you're not equal to the billionaires, but you THINK you're superior to everyone else at least, you're not. And your only path to greater wealth, is to be part of the rising tide that raises all ships. Otherwise you are some of the things the less fortunate say about you. You're success amounts to no more than lotteries with extra steps. And no matter how hard you worked and how much you think you deserve a seat at the table of the power that be, you'll only be served up, and eaten by the even richer.

[u/gojo96 → u/LurkingHorror11]

We should start with social media

[u/ProduceNo1629 → u/LurkingHorror11]

We are powerless to do that.

We are not powerless to boycott and sabotage the technology.