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I'm with Linus Torvalds and GrapheneOS on this. AI is a useful tool, for all its flaws and negative externalities.
I am sure I will be down voted on Lemmy for this but using AI for development by a team who is already experienced in development of the product they are working on is not a moral failing.
Don't forget the negative internalities (it makes it's users dumber and the codebase less maintainable).
But yes it is useful, and the knee jerk hate comes mostly as a reaction to the marketing lies told by the companies selling it.
Luckily, the "negative externalities" are mostly made-up bullshit.
Reality altering disinformation as fact, using a machine that is essentially plagiarism incarnate? You are pushing a false narrative OP
The ecological damage is not made up.
It's pretty insignificant compared to the rest of the economy. Focusing on AI to the exclusion of bigger issues is actively harmful.
Layoffs are made-up?
Layoffs aren't the problem here...the problem is that society requires people generate their own worth through work, and suddenly a good chunk of that work is now significantly less valuable.
Requiring less work is a good thing. Humans should be striving to minimize work. That's what humanity is good at.
The problem comes in that while the "input" of AI is, essentially, the collection of all human knowledge...while the output is money for a small handful of people...people who themselves contributed next to nothing to that pile of human knowledge (and in fact are probably running a deficit to it).
That ain't right. We are all shareholders in the collection of all human knowledge. We should all be getting dividends from its work.
Oh look! Another "leftist" trying to shift blame away from tariff man.
Maybe I am just not understanding your direction based politics, but isn't it the right that put him in office? Isn't your comment backwards?
To be clear, I literally don't know, it's hard enough following my own country's politics lol
Yes. Trump's deranged acts are seriously harming the US economy but also doing a lot of damage to the global economy. Anyone who blames AI for layoffs is effectively helping Trump/the global right by covering up their incompetence and failure. To be fair, Putin's war is also causing much harm.
Then why did you say they were leftist?
As for the layoff blame, just because I say I like hamburgers doesn't mean I hate hotdogs. Layoffs can be happening from both those things, and just because people are acknowledging one source doesn't mean they are helping the other source..
I'm not American if that is what you're implying. Have a nice day.