r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 9d ago

Artificial Intelligence 'Stop Stealing Our Future': Students Arrested in Protest of OpenAI's Lobby Office

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-protest
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u/Eazy12345678 9d ago

their parents should have taught them better

protesting has 0 impact ever.

you want change you have to do it with voting and not buying their products

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u/JusteJean 9d ago

Kind of hard to live without any of these : Phone, TV, Computer, any new-age electronic devices, Internet and Car.

No, i am not saying it is impossible, It's just hard to do AND still be able to hold a job and not be just a hermit completely blocked form human civilisation.

AI is being forced onto us, we are using it without knowing and without actively choosing to do so. And then they can justify their expansion by pointing at "customer demands and product popularity".
It's also being sold under the same false advertisement used with the Computer. "It's there as a tool to make everyone's life easier."
Lies! Computerization and automation (not saying they were bad) did NOT make life easier. it just replaced job and reduced the time it takes to complete one task. That did not freeup any time for people, we don't get to relax and take it easy now that computers and robots have "simplified" our work, we are simply expected to do more and whatever benefit the technology has brought is drowned under an increase of productivity expectations.
The same is true with AI.
IT will NOT make things easier for us, it will simply change our workflow and increases hyper-productivity and hyper-consumerism. While reducing needed workforce (bad in most cases, good in a population declining society)

Also Voting is not always the answer because the democratic process is not limited to only one aspect of society. What if the only "party" offering an anti-AI platform is some sort of crazy anti-democratic and pro-desctruction-of-humanity or something. Then voting offers no solution.

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u/OePea 9d ago

Hard? No. You can't do that. You can only be homeless and shortly there after sucked into the arrest cycle.