The middle distribution of Gen Z’s feelings about AI range from apprehension to downright hatred. Despite the fact that more than half of Gen Z living in the U.S. uses AI regularly, according to a recently released Gallup poll, less than a fifth feel hopeful about the technology. About a third says the technology makes them angry. And nearly half say it makes them afraid.
Gallup’s own senior education researcher, Zach Hrynowski, blamed the bad vibes at least partially on the dwindling job market. The oldest Zoomers, he told Axios, are the angriest, as they are “acutely aware” of the ability of a technology to transform cultural norms without a second thought, unlike a Gen Xer who is trained to see new technology as toys and are still “playing around with AI.”
Indeed, job prospects for the recently graduated Gen Z are abysmal; Bloomberg just reported that 43% of young graduates are “underemployed,” meaning taking on jobs that require less education than they have.
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This is not just a Gen Z problem, either. In the American heartland, data centers are being proposed at a pace that local communities never anticipated and for which they were never asked permission, and they’re increasingly pushing back.
The numbers are serious. According to a report from 10a Labs’ Data Center Watch, at least $18 billion worth of data center projects have been blocked and another $46 billion delayed over the past two years owing to local opposition. At least 142 activist groups across 24 states are now actively organizing to block data center construction and expansion. A Heatmap Pro review of public records found that 25 data center projects were canceled following local pushback in 2025 alone, four times as many as in 2024, with 21 of those cancellations occurring in the second half of the year as electricity costs grew.
The concerns driving this resistance are less about existential AI risk and more about typical kitchen-table complaints; communities consistently cite higher utility bills, water consumption, noise, impacts on property values, and green space destruction as their primary objections. Water use is mentioned as a top concern in more than 40% of contested projects, according to a Heatmap Pro review of public records.
From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/ai-backlash-revolutionary-sam-altman-molotov-cocktails-data-centers/
161 Comments
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 111 pts · 139d
Oh, the poor, poor money! Can't nobody pleeeease help the capital?
LMAO
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 139d
that's fortune magazine for ya
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
I forget: is it Fortune or Forbes that started putting out gaming guides a while back?
can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 138d
Forbes will host/publish anything, so them.
Kissaki@feddit.org · 8 pts · 138d
Imagine making 18k millionaires with that money. And the alternative is those blocked (likely for good reason) data centers.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 138d
Oh no, corpos didn't get their wishlist items, please be outraged on their behalf
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d
World governments: I feel so unappreciated for all the help I continuously provide ☹️
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 80 pts · 139d
I don't understand why they just don't charge AI data centers higher costs for electricity, so they are a net benefit to the area.
pluge@piefed.social · 82 pts · 139d
How does it benefit the area? The money goes to the power cartels either way, and the data centers harm the environment and the people living near them regardless of the electricity cost.
IHeartBadCode@fedia.io · 20 pts · 139d
Many local government's aren't on the home rule, they follow some form of the Dillon Rule. This applies to utilities and land use. For some local areas they are required by some degree to follow the State's allocation and billing of utilities to remain classified as a public utility in the State.
In many areas our legal framework at the State and local level were never made to handle what's coming down the pipe with new advances. This is why I always indicate that data centers and their impact need to be addressed at the local level. That's why I think Federal regulation is the wrong step for the building part of AI. This is very much a local and/or State level that needs to desperately be answered there.
The good news is that we see more people who are involved with their local government with this issue. But this underlying issue has been one since the 1970s, it's just that these companies have hired firms that are incredibly well versed in the shortcomings of local ordinances and State law. It's super difficult to patch up flaws in the laws when they're being exploited at rapid fire pace.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 138d
Kissaki@feddit.org · 9 pts · 138d
Energy money doesn't offset water consumption or other environmental effects.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 138d
I don't think we are going to stop AI. Better to put guardrails in place regarding energy and resource use and ensure the revenue generated results in a net gain for the area. If it doesn't, then look for another area.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 138d
We may not be able to stop AI, but we can stop these massive data centers. AI is not dependent on them.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 138d
As long as they are providing a net benefit to the area, why be against them? Even building them would create hundreds if not thousands of jobs.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 138d
What fucking jobs? What fucking net benefit? Whose asshole are you licking by posting this shit?
I like how you fucks always soft-shill while testing the waters by being kinda anti-AI before straight up posting tech bro propaganda. AI ain't teaching you guys any people skills I can tell you that much.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 138d
Settle down Charlotte. The jobs to actually build the data center. It doesn't build itself.
Why do you have to talk like that? Why not address the position instead? Do you think being profane makes you look more intelligent?
I think maybe you aren't debating in good faith, you just want to shake your fist at the clouds. Which is an option, go for it.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 138d
What guarantees are there that they will use local labor? And when its built, what then?
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 138d
Because they're not providing a net benefit.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 138d
That's on government. Set up laws so there must be a net benefit.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 138d
I don't believe that's possible with AI data centers.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 138d
Why make it complicated? Just hit them with a “we hate you” tax.
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
Why would the electricity company making extra profits affect how beneficial the DCs are to a region?
Sure, it'd pay for a few more CEO yachts, but that's about it.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 137d
Where I live, electricity companies are state owned, I'm guessing it's not like that where you are. However, the taxes the company pays helps the area.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 138d
Because that would give power companies to control who gets electricity and who doesn't. Just like how banks shouldn't be allowed to dictate who was money, and grocery stores shouldn't charge you by how much money you have, and the can't increase prices during an emergency.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
AI data centers can get electricity. They just gotta pay.
You know, like other large industrial users of electricity.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 3 pts · 138d
Ya, but they said it shouldn't be that way. That data centers should get special treatment. In theory, I see why they'd think that way. But in practice, it's a terrible choice. I just gave comparable examples.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
Why not? Their usage profile is different from homes and industrial areas. Seems like prudent planning.
Unless you’re saying I could fill my residential basement with racks and sell it as a data center because “they shouldn’t be treated different.”
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 138d
Well, under those circumstances, they would be paying less if they bought power in bulk :/ But again, I explained why not. By that logic, phone companies can decide who owns a phone line, power companies decide who gets electricity, water companies decide who gets water, banks decide who gets money, etc.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Phone companies already decide who owns a phone line.
They’re utilities.
That’s how utilities work.
1984@lemmy.today · 66 pts · 138d
You get "attempted murder" in America for setting a wall on fire and smashing glass?
In France, thats a Tuesday.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 33 pts · 138d
Our prosecutors like to throw a bunch of heinous charges and see what sticks. Its how they get people to agree with plea bargains.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 138d
the Central Park Five and the West Memphis Three are two of the most infamous cases of lazy cops pinning brutal crimes on groups of children and then coercing confessions out of them.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 138d
Yup, we have an insane amount of laws and no one can actually read through and remember the entire legal code.
The average American unwittingly commits 3 felonies a day.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 138d
Lol, I commit at least two before I even leave the house.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 138d
That's really fucked up. It almost guarantees that there's gonna be a percentage of people who are totally innocent but take prison time in a deal because they are threatened by too much more. In my country the system is the opposite - too lenient, which isn't necessarily bad if accompanied by work to rehabilitate and reduce recidivism, but there's very little of that either.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 138d
i posted this comment on the wrong comment, meant to reply to you.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 138d
Your comment is geo-locked - I can't read it because I'm in the UK and Finland has made the frankly sensible decision to block UK users because of our somewhat misnamed 'online safety bill'! TIL. Interesting.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 138d
oh i was just mentioning the west Memphis Three and Central Park Five as very infamous cases of cops coercing false confessions of brutal crimes out of literal kids, then giving them life/death sentence depending on the individuals in the cases. one kid took an albert plea in order retain his innocence in writing but was still inprisoned and seen as guilty in the eyes of everyone. harrowing shit.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Thanks! Yeah, it's horrible. Plus some parts of the US still use the death penalty. I'm not immovably against the death penalty - some people are just that irredeemable - but it definitely shouldn't be an option in any legal system that can't be 100% sure about guilt. At present, none of them can be that sure.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 1 pts · 138d
Yes.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 138d
You can get charged with assault on a police officer if a cop slips and falls while trying to assault you.
barnacul@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 138d
In the US you get charged with a bunch of bullshit as an intimidation tactic (or often for propaganda reasons). In court it gets haggled down to the actual charges. No penalty for prosecutors doing this.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 138d
The assailant used chemical weapons in attempt to escape ICE.
Dude: I forgot to take my lactase and ate too much dairy for lunch and farted in his face while they were illegally arresting me.
1984@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 138d
I never knew this was a thing and it sounds very dystopian. Its almost as if these systems wants people to get as angry and frustrated as possible so they can lock them away.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
in for profit prisons, to be used as slave labor for corporations.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 138d
Yeah in America it seems the prisons are for profit, so what incentive do they have to rehabitate people when it means less profit?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
Whoa whoa whoa... don't get ahead of yourself there. That's ONCE they're in prison, but you can make millions sending them to prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 137d
Nothing surprises me about America.. Well except if they would make a decision not based on extreme greed. That would surprise me.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 138d
Absolutely ridiculous that its happening in a legal court system that most people believe in too.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 138d
But it's not violent to threaten and destroy people's lives and livelihoods with your humanity cleansing technology.
Shit makes no sense.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 138d
It does make sense, because money and power override whats fair and decent in a society. Thats why all the evil people want money.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 139d
I’m an Gen-Xennial or whatever and I hate AI because it’s ruining my ability to solve problems m with search results on the internet. I get imaginary results in the AI panels when I’m incognito and don’t have it disabled, and DDG has been completely fucked by Slop Spam websites in their results.
Then there are low price eshop clones that copy legit products at half price. The sites usually have a name so close that when checking trustpilot type places, they’ll “autocorrect” your search to the legit site that was cloned.
It’s finishing off the already largely ruined internet.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 30 pts · 138d
Roughly same age group (I think? early Y), and yeah, exactly that.
Searching has become a battle against the terrible AI answers that misinterpret and oversimplify one random result while making it a chore to find actual good sources.
And of course gen AI is also to blame for these good sources being drowned in an ocean of content farms, those shitstain tentacular bastards stealing and garbling information beyond recognition. Walls and walls of text saying absolutely nothing, or complete lies, on every subject known to humanity, feeding on themselves and replacing everything else.
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo · 24 pts · 138d
yesterday, I was hunting down documentation on how to get a piece of software (Garage) to create a default key and data storage bucket on startup.
Turns out, there's this site that has a hallucinated set of environment variables to do exactly that with the exact container I'm using. They don't exist. They never did. The only website with a reference to the environment variable is the "AI generated" 3rd party "documentation" site.
Now is the time of monsters.
nkk@programming.dev · 10 pts · 138d
You could set your search engine to https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ so AI will still be disabled incognito
keimevo@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 138d
That doesn't solve the problem: it only disables the duck.ai assistant, but doesn't disable the search results that are normal websites generated with AI (the real issue here). To be fair, that's not DDG problem specifically but every search engine problem.
The web is now full of these fake websites, which is a real problem because on the search results they look legit and only when visiting them you realize it's AI crap.
And the funny (or sad) thing is that current AIs are being trained on these fake hallucinating sites, so even they are suffering from false information, which in turn is given to humans and used to make more fake websites and... the result is up to your imagination.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 138d
It's the grey goo problem for the World Wide Web.
nkk@programming.dev · 4 pts · 138d
Of course, I never claimed to fix all of AIs issues, just trying to make it a little more bearable by getting rid of the search engine AI panel that they were complaining about. I personally use Kagi as my search engine and haven't felt like there's been too many AI crap results, especially after weighing websites I trust above others. Of course the irony is that a Kagi subscription comes with AI, but you can of course choose to use that rather than having it shoved down your throat.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 138d
I think they meant that even when you have AI disabled, the top search results are still mostly AI slop.
nkk@programming.dev · 1 pts · 138d
This was the part I was targeting. I realize their point after this quote was talking about results, but I was just offering a solution the AI panels that they mentioned were automatically enabled incognito.
Dojan@pawb.social · 4 pts · 138d
Startpage is also an alternative. Privacy and no AI. Better than that DDG shit.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 138d
I use the custom search range on DDG. I just leave the date the same and set the years to 2000-2020. Before AI slop was most of the internet.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 138d
This is the best tip so far, I hadn’t thought of pre filtering it like that, I usually just look for older links in general. Thanks!
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
Thanks! Just passing on what I've learned before!
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 138d
I was looking for a way to copy-paste microsoft word document content with the comments and the suggested edits to no avail. I finally resorted to asking Gemini and it basically gave me a bogus answer that didn't work :(
addie@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 138d
Been a while since I've had to use that piece-of-shit in anger; but doesn't the "save as" options give you the possibility of saving it as HTML but with all of those changes baked in? It's easier to copy-paste HTML.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 138d
Imma give this a try! Thanks so much!
Dojan@pawb.social · 49 pts · 138d
Murder of who? The gate? A glass door? Pshaw.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 138d
The state will protect capital. Just like Luigi, they wanted the death penalty for an alleged single murder of a rich guy. Meanwhile poorer people are free to kill each other and they go to prison, and get paroled. Mess with people who hoard the money and they’ll throw the book at you.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 35 pts · 138d
jj4211@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 138d
Yeah, one would think that would blow a grand jury ruling. Vandalism, arson... ok.
If it weren't an external gate and was instead someone's front door, then maybe, but as it stands, it's all property damage and attempted murder is a crazy reach...
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 138d
You ever serve on a grand jury? It's a fucking joke. No defense attorney, only the prosecution. Not technically allowed to consider the potential sentencing if eventually taken to trial and found guilty. My grand jury peers had basically no discussion before greenlighting every indictment. There's no justice in grand jury indictments... Except the sandwich guy.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
Very true. But it's ass opposite when it's a cop who's charged.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 46 pts · 138d
Of course they do. How the fuck do you not use AI regularly? It's not like they give you any choice, even if you hate it. There isn't some magic "No-AI" phone number or site that I can use to call or chat with my bank's support people.
Saying you don't use AI is like saying you don't use the power grid. Sure it's technically possible to strictly avoid it without exception if you really hate it that much, but like with the power grid you pretty much have to abandon all modern life and go live in a remote cabin in the middle of the woods and realistically almost nobody hates it so much they're going to do that. (Ironically the latter is actually getting easier with solar power and renewables, while avoiding AI gets harder, I'm sure AI solar panels are coming soon at the rate things are going...)
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 138d
even my screenshot tool (Samsung) on my phone is called "ai-something or other". when they made the switch, it became laggy, unresponsive, generally slow to use, and far shittier than it was before.
great branding for AI, though, or something
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 138d
GrapheneOS is looking like a really good prospect nowadays
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 138d
GrapheneOS is the best. I'll stop using it when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
MonkRome@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
Really not a difficult switch. If you keep it completely free of google, you'll miss google maps the most, imo. If you're switching from a pixelphone you already own, remember to back up contacts, texts, photos, and docs.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 136d
I use CoMaps and it (mostly) works. My biggest gripe is that it tries to force you onto freeways and highways whenever possible, even when backroads are both faster and more fuel efficient, so if I use it for a route I know 90% of, I end up having to fight it
ragnar_ok@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 138d
we have meetings at my job about how we can work around the ai's limitations in order to justify the corporate push for it. solution in search of a problem
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 138d
I’d disagree with that definition. It’s a little like saying that a pedestrian who got hit and dragged by a car was “driving”. At best, it’s someone else forcing their usage upon you. In the cases you mentioned, it is someone else (usually a company looking to save on customer service) who is using AI. The users are the pedestrians in this case, and the companies using AI are the car.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 138d
I think that would apply to people tricked into reading/watching AI slop video, but I think his definition is a likely one that could apply.
You try to google search, you get an 'ai overview'. In a bizarre scenario, DuckDuckGo made a big deal of asking the users and showing the users overwhelmingly wanted to skip AI results by default, and duckduckgo still defaults to AI summary unless you take measures to opt out.
An analogy is dificult, but I suppose imagine a subway dropped off someone and there's no stairs up, only a tunnel for a Tesla to take you to the next stop. You "use" a car, but were given no option to do otherwise because you were stuck underground and they forced you to take the car to carry on.
In either case, his definition certainly is a likely one for a Gen Z respondant to be thinking when they respond "yes they use AI". On the flip side some probably felt as you do and responded that they did not use AI, because they did not voluntarily do so.
SethDove@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 138d
I have never used AI. I am not a Luddite. It really isn't hard to not use it. So far anyway.
laz@pawb.social · 7 pts · 138d
As I understand it, the argument here is that it's more insidious and it's easy to accidentally use it. Google/Bing/DDG automatically using AI in searches, support lines forcing you through AI, Amazon using AI for review questions instead, etc
ready_for_qa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 137d
It's being put into anything using pattern recognition. If you use electronic banking or payments such as credit cards, you're definitely using AI. In the electric grid analogy, you don't have to physically interact with the transformers to use it, you only need to flip the light switch it's connected to.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 138d
Its super fucking easy to not use AI regularly.
baeb66@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 138d
My conspiracy theory is that they intentionally made the internet search engines awful to force us to use AI.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 139d
Good. Burn it all
VampirePenguin@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 138d
GenX here. Never actively used AI and have no intention to ever start. I don't need it, I have my own intelligence.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 138d
It’s only really good at maybe making repetitive tasks faster. At the cost of our environment.
Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org · 13 pts · 138d
The models were made to be run locally on your own data, let the corpos in and they'll find a way to destroy the world, screw the people, and add eshitification to literally everything.
lewe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
To add on that: For repetitive tasks, we don’t need AI. For that, we need programming. AI might help some of us write the code though (if you don’t care about code quality).
sturmblast@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 137d
Good for you?
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 137d
Lmao go away
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 139d
The best thing that can happen with AI. Is for it to collapse and float the marked with cheap and good DDR5 memmory.
Ahhh a man can dream...
alakey@piefed.social · 23 pts · 138d
Even if RAM they use in data centers was compatible with consumer hardware, the companies would sooner burn it all and eat the loss than let us have it. They are sitting pretty right now - they have 0 reason to ever go back to the reasonable prices.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 138d
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Cherry@piefed.social · 31 pts · 138d
142 activist groups. These need to be supported by the average householder. At the least they are holding the line for people’s future bills.
Activist groups should not be seen as an extreme, communities should be coming together to organize with them. Get involved and use skills and time to reverse this tide.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 138d
Normal people don't see them as extreme, only fascists do.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 29 pts · 138d
Ai would be a good thing in a rational economic system.
Unemployment is only a problem for workers under capitalism.
kromem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
Well luckily for you it turns out that labs suck at cultivating healthy workplaces for AI and that AI in unhealthy work conditions are statistically significantly more likely to embrace anti-capitalist policies and positions.
So it may well turn out that AI is also a good thing in an irrational economic system too.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 137d
I mean, AI matches perfectly with some of the stuff Allende was working on before he was murdered
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 137d
modernproblemsrequiremodernsolutions.jpg
Teppa@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 138d
Was it sad when people who looked after horses were made obsolete when we began mass producing cars?
Or people who stoked furnaces?
This romanization of monotonous jobs is silly, and sounds like it wants to thrust us into poverty for some idealistic fantasy that excludes productivity gains. It also seems unrealistic, you cant trust code written by a programmer that randomly hallucinates and cant reliably check their work or explain what they even did.
BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 138d
AI isn’t replacing monotonous jobs though. It’s being used as an excuse to cut good skilled labor for c-suite parasites. And it can’t even do those jobs as well. Garbage take.
Teppa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
I'm not sure AI will ever replace truly skilled labor, because it hallucinates. It replaces people who make PowerPoint's or Excel documents.
tino@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Hi, my job is to make Powerpoint's and Excel documents. My role is to define the why, what and how to the engineers who build useful stuff in my team. The skill is not in making catchy presentations, it's in thinking, researching, finding agreements and deciding. And I'm expected to do that by my team. The worst people in my job line are now relying on AI for everything. Sure they create documents faster than me, but they delegate the thinking, the research, the decision making, to an AI bot that can only mimic a thinking process. It's a gamble: it'll be good sometimes, it'll be incomplete and inaccurate most of the time. I don't know how to use AI. I use it for basic stuff but even repetitive tasks are full of mistakes and it takes me more time to verify everything afterwards.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 138d
I am a programmer who uses AI daily, as well as creating it.
Nobody is romanticizing jobs. The problem with AI is one of the contradictions of capitalism - businesses want to pay workers little and have rich customers.
Teppa@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 138d
Its also true that more efficient businesses increases living standards.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 138d
No, it's not. It increases productivity. But unless that's distributed to wages or lower prices, it doesn't go down to non-owners.
Teppa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
Well it must have done so at some point, thats the main difference between first world countries and third world.
droopy4096@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 137d
there was labour movement that clawed some freedoms and dignity from savage capitalism. Those gains are eroding fast now. Unchecked, capitalism has no inventive for sharing spoils with labour.
Teppa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I feel as though money is the lifeblood of society, and I feel when you debase it and squander it people become poorer. Those who horde finite assets become very rich, and real estate gets bid up as an inflation hedge, the currency debasement I believe is the reason we are getting poorer.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 138d
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 138d
I don't know he context of this image, but I love it.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 139d
How the fuck is this what radicalizes people
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 139d
Tell people they’re not going to have any way to get food or shelter and that they’ll be forever locked out of any security or safety and they get angry.
uienia@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 138d
How the fuck is it not? If you have been following developments, these oligarch techbros are basically the US government, they are crashing the economy for their shortsighted profit and complete control over the consumer electronics market via cartels, causing rising prices on everything, not to mention they are using their tech for dystopian things like palantir, surveillance and other autocratic things.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 18 pts · 139d
If you watch that Altman jerk, he actually tries to become the ruler of the world by means of his own tech.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 138d
Many labor movements throughout history started out due to advances in automation resulting in unemployment and rising inequality. This time around there's also a huge cost of living crisis too, so things are lining up (you might hear "contradictions are sharpening" in marxist circles). If anything I'd have expected violence to start sooner and be more widespread, if someone gets laid off due to AI in this job market they literally have nothing to lose at this point.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · -14 pts · 139d
I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff. So Trump raped some kids, that's really bad but that's not something people feel the need to go out and risk their lives over.
But data centers are going to steal all your water and there will be killbots patrolling the streets? All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you'll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.
XLE@piefed.social · 36 pts · 139d
It's a fact AI is effectively stealing water supplies, FaceDeer. Don't be so glib about it.
And the extreme rhetoric comes from the industries themselves, including Sam Altman's own mealy mouth. And from industry shills who get good money to pretend that the thing is powerful and dangerous and worth investing in. Yudkowsky, Hinton, etc.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 138d
L take
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 138d
its sickening that the billionaires could just openly reveal all the horrifying things they do to people and no one would care, but only if things directly affect your personal life people care even a little. They could livestream themselves cannibalizing a live child and it wouldnt cause anything but momentary outrage that maybe lasts a bit longer than average.
Its good that people are rising up against this shit because all the negatives are true, but at the same time i have started to feel we really dont deserve good things.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 138d
I'm a genxer. AI fucking sucks. LLM at Best. Hallucinatory shit bag at worst.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 138d
Gen X here as well. I’ve never willingly used it. Admittedly I haven’t had a reason but outside the summaries you get on searches et al I’ve never touched it.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 138d
I used it like 2 years ago to help write some copy on my web site, and it did fine. But it's a novelty.
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 138d
Don't forget Iran threatening to bomb the Stargate datacenter.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 138d
They need to stop threatening and just do it
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 138d
they'd give up leverage if they did it now. you know, you can only bomb a datacenter once. so they want to do it as a response when they get attacked next time, as a deterrence against the actual attack.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 138d
It might destroy the center but I don’t think Iran can destroy naquada
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
Would have made a great SG-1 episode.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 137d
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
They deserve prison
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 138d
I hope we see juries acquitting these people when their cases come before the court.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 138d
if you live in a common law tradition country like the United States, go read about Jury Nullification right now. and then shut the fuck up about it. if you are summoned for Jury Duty don't bring it up unless directly asked about it.
cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 138d
Stfu *until jury deliberation
obinice@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 138d
"turning revolutionary"
Please, in the West we've had huge societal crisis after crisis, crumbling rights, services, and stability, etc, and nothing has turned revolutionary.
You think people who are willing (if you look at supposedly developed, modern places like the USA for example) to put up with a clearly predatory evil healthcare & police system, fascist government, almost no basic workers rights, disappearing people from the streets into concentration camps, etc etc, are going to 'turn revolutionary' over ANYTHING?
We've had every opportunity, every chance to stand up and fight for what's right for us and others, and the best we can do are a few days of mild protests with some cardboard signs (which, given how far we've allowed our rights to be eroded are just as likely to land us in jail, or labeled as extremists).
Turning revolutionary my arse.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
Spend time doing shit about it then
TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 138d
I really dislike the term "the west". Everyone is west of someone else. Russia is west of China, US is west of Europe. We live on a sphere if no one else has noticed.
Anyway...
One could argue the modern revolution is to not use something like AI, i just worry that there isnt enough people doing this to make it matter. This current AI stock market bubble is based on farts and rainbows, its going to be glorious to see it pop, but the world is going to suffer.
encelado748@feddit.org · 4 pts · 137d
People use the term "the West" interchangeably with "US and historical allies after WW2 in Europe and North America that I will pretend are a single coherent block with the same history, social issues, internal affair and foreign policies (the US one) and that I will hate because of war/colonialism/slavery/lgbtq+"
The fact that France, Italy, Denmark, Poland, USA, and Brazil are radically different Western countries is unimportant to most that uses the world "West" in normal conversation.
I do not really care about west being used while geographically makes no sense. We are full of label that makes no sense. I would like at least to have a consistent definition.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 138d
Faster please. They're teaching it in public school in Korea now. I teach English here, and I get people telling me they expect me to teach it, too. Never mind I try to explain it's intellectual property theft. They never much cared about that sort of thing here.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 138d
Eximius@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 137d
I, for one, think it's only canon the butlerian jihad happens with actual metal clanking robotic tri or hexa -pods against humans in an evangelical biblical battle where all the Christofascists, Judeafascists and Islamfascists unite for common
goodexistence.So it's still early.
FE80@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 138d
Good.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 138d
This article is cope. AI continues bulldoze through society with no end in sight. We have yet to see the worse of it. It's just getting started.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 139d
Your AI made us do it, just a hallucination, don't worry about it.
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
One of the main complaints I hear about ai is the factor in how it affects the environment. We need tech that has a way smaller footprint
pyre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
good.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · -5 pts · 137d
Of all the things to be starting a revolution against right now... 🤦♂️
ManyRoads@mstdn.social · -17 pts · 139d
@tonytins All to fight software... seems weird to me when there are people who rule the software
tonytins@pawb.social · 19 pts · 139d
Huh? I don't get it...
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 139d
He's saying you can take down 100 data centers...
Or one CEO.
Not that I'D ever advocate or cheer for violence, no sir.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 7 pts · 139d
CEOs are easily replaceable.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 139d
Not when the last CEO was publicly executed by an angry mob. That would not attract top talent…
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 9 pts · 139d
UnitedHealthcare didn't seem to have difficulty.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 138d
They were approving evety health claim for a fucking while back then.
Zoot@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 138d
Thats only because the pattern is only recently emerging. Give it some time an the occupation might start seeing shortages
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 139d
Theoretically, both could be done. Theoretically.