Technocracy is here

https://futurism.com/ai-increase-inequality-sam-altman-admits

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Glifted@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Highly recommend the Better Offline podcast by Ed Zitron. He spends a lot of time shitting on these guys and generative AI in general

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

"Tech Won't save us" is awesome too

https://www.techwontsave.us/

livjq@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Ah so excited to see two of my favorite podcasts get recommended.

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The rich are trying to achieve world domination before we collectively strip them of their excess wealth to fix wealth inequality and dethrone them.

I wish i were kidding...

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Its 2025, do you know where your technomage is?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

What is that, some sort of ripperdoc viral marketing bullshit? C’mon choom, you’re better than that.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Someone needs a trip to the Funhole

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Sounds like both of us do

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No I mean really, its a Lemmy community thats great. Technomage is a web comic posted there.

exu@feditown.com · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Link?

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

!Funhole@lemmy.sdf.org

lobut@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 1y

Tech bros never wanted to make the world a better place. They're the 10% and they want to be the 0.1%. Where THEY get to be the boot on our necks.

ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y

As if we haven't all (or at least many) been under mass surveillance for at least 20 years..

Not defending anything, just fuck, I wish people started noticing shit before it came knocking on their individual door...

Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

What sort of bizarre dichotomy is this? These really are the options? Bad or morally bankrupt? /rhetorical questions

surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

He’s not talking about an unintended side effect. He’s discussing a primary mission goal. They want AI to enable more inequality, which is exactly why they’re trying to outlaw DeepSeek now.

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They are trying to solve the $1 trillion question that the ruller class have been seeking for centuries: How to remove the need to pay wages? How to remove the workers from the equation?

surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I’m convinced that if they get a robot which can serve as an acceptable soldier/laborer, they’ll go full Children of Men and sterilize most of the population. And they really believe AI will let them replace the artists, too.