Fire in the hole!

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If we got all the other socialist progressive benefits of the Star Trek universe, including no billionaires, then I think we’d be a lot less unhappy with generative AI as presented in that world.

    How they built it, and what they plan to do with it is a pretty big part of the reason for our anger.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, if we de-meme it and really want to define it, the difference is Star Trek is a post-scarcity world, so generative AI building things doesn’t take anything away from human artists - it doesn’t affect their livelihoods because their livelihoods are guaranteed.

      As always…

    • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Exactly! I am not anti-ai. I am opposed to corporate controlled, massively polluting, unreliable slop engines that will be used to surveil us and take our jobs without benefitting us in any way.

    • MrNesser@lemmy.world
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      Depending on the rate of AI we will probably get something to the polity universe version than Star Trek.

      Still not as bad but could be better