Comment by prmph

3 months ago

This is one of the best comments about the current AI hype.

The elite really don't see why the proletariat should be interested in, or enjoy the dignity of, actual skill and quality.

Hence the enshitification of everything, and now AI promises to commoditize everything into slop.

Sad because it is the very deoth of society that has birthe

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Invictus0  3 months ago

John Rockefeller didn't sit down in a big chair, twirl his mustache, and invent AI to funnel money to the hands of the wealthy. This technology was created by researchers and has been mostly accessible to everyone for as long as it has been around.

All technology has the effect of concentrating wealth, and anyone who insists on using their two hands to fashion things when machines exist that can do it better will always be relegated to the "artisan" bin as time rolls on.

bethekidyouwant  3 months ago

This could be a comment about the industrial revolution.

  • pessimizer  3 months ago

    The industrial revolution's immediate effect was to radically lower lifespans and lengthen working hours. After all of those people suffered and died, lifespans gradually got long again, although working hours never went back to normal.

    You might think it was worth it now because you got an iphone, but they didn't get an iphone.

    • nipah  2 months ago

      Your view is incomplete. It did lowered lifespans, but also increased them MUCH MORE than before. It was not "oh, it got worse, now it is recovering". It was "it got worse, now it is much better than before". The amount of infant deaths it lowered, for example, is massive.

      And it is true, those people did not got an iPhone and died, but this is also you saying this for them. You don't know all the specifics of history or all their motivations, the industrial revolution had a bloody story, but it's origins were also organic, it also had aspects of improvement. The world population grew almost 10x.

      I don't think we are in a position to judge those past events to the lens you are posing.

    • CamperBob2  3 months ago

      Well, what they were doing before was sure as shit not going to get them an iPhone.

      Just because a paradigm shift doesn't miraculously catapult us all into a post-scarcity economy overnight, that doesn't mean it's not an important milestone on a longer road.