• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 days ago

      The soulless would. Everyone who works on “ai”, for instance.

      Look, I don’t take “no investigation, no right to speak” as some kind of literal doctrine to follow, but Mao did have a point about the value of investigating rather than pure “brain cudgeling”. And it’s evident because I have investigated that anyone making a statement like this has not done shit to investigate the situation with generative AI.

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      At face value this is just a dehumanizing comment. You’re basically saying some people have no soul, and the soul is understood to be a wholly human thing. As materialists we don’t believe in the soul (a. it’s a metaphysical concept and b. where is it located? It’s clearly not an organ) but that’s why @amemorablename and I used it between quotes.

      And so what, everyone who works on AI, even the engineers who are finding medical applications to save lives, are soulless just on virtue of the stuff they work on? Even the workers who were shuffled into AI research instead of idk Youtube UX, because that’s where their boss wants them to be now?

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              I’ll be honest “my guy” I truly don’t care for your trolling. You would probably fit better on 8chan or similar image boards because you both share hate for the working class and think dehumanizing people is a valid strategy. Ironically it’s the anti-ai crowd that is closer to the “soulless” fascists than the pro-AI crowd judging from this type of language.

              I’m just gonna put this here as a warning, it’s not okay to dehumanize people just because you don’t like or agree with them and we will start to moderate on this. If you can’t have conversations without pulling these types of arguments then just don’t say anything.

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      Everyone who works on “ai”, for instance.

      So you are also dehumanizing people like Cao Jun, a visually impaired developer, that is working with AI to make screens “speak,” thereby enabling people with visual impairments to navigate phones and computers more effectively.

      In other words, you are dehumanizing someone that is actively working with the AI to make a software that is now serving over 400,000 visually impaired users.