Comment by southernplaces7
15 hours ago
To see this, I would be happy in so many contexts and situations. I'm not by nature a luddite and appreciate the value of AI in many things, even as it now is, but the sheer overload of shoehorning it into every possible thing for better KPIs while maximizing customer service "fuck-them value" by idiot executives and moron managers (choke on your own feces, all of you) still hoping to latch their suckers on the STILL BIG thing of the FUTURE!!! without a clue about its details and limits is revolting. Enshittification has been thus exponentiated!
Then, there's seeing government use it in its own disgustingly parasitical ways for accelerated mass surveillance, and to not even mention the absolute flood of utterly brain-dead spam sludge content that has flooded all social networks, online searches and just about every corner of the internet (including my inbox, thanks mom and friends who have no clue how to distinguish Ai slop from anything in the least bit valuable)
And I just want a large part of it to burn and die back. I'm with the artists and real photographers on this one.
Rant over.
> I'm not by nature a luddite
Our modern view of the Luddites is not a fair shake. The Luddites were not opposed to technology in general, they merely (and understandably) opposed having their own livelihoods replaced by automation.[1] It's a familiar sentiment in these times.
Incidentally, I'm not implying that you don't know what the original Luddites were about; I add my comment for the benefit of anyone else who may be unfamiliar with the backstory.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Not to mention execs lazily scapegoating AI for every layoff and firing, even though AI has little to do with it