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Comparing ai datacenter backlash to masking backlash during covid is insane.
If anything, being pro-mask is being anti-ai. Its just fucking logical.
Or, you know, the more likely approach is datacenters just make everyones lives worse in multiple unique ways. Maybe they dont want that if its a willing choice, unlike a pandemic.
The comparison is also stupid because being "anti-mask", was literally a political symbol.
Also, people are not protesting data centers as a "political symbol". They are protesting them because it's a huge waste of energy and effort that provides mostly trash results that will never be efit most people in a meaningful way that is accelerating the already shitty climate problem.
Not to mention tech companies have spent a decade now obliterating trust in tech they spent the previous decades building. No fucking privacy, no choice to just use a product. It's all 10,000 ads or subscriptions that just go up and up and up for more features and improvements no one fucking needs or wants because everything has to "move fast." Then they just start forcibly hoovering up all the data, and even if you take a LOT of pain in the ass steps to avoid letting your data get sucked up they do it anyway by pulling your friends and relative's data about you and making it harder and harder to do anything with data protections in place line blockers and VPNs.
People are just tired of these shit fuck tech companies, in general.
The attempt to frame anti-ai sentiment as similar to anti-vax is a deliberate attempt to paint protesters as ‘emotional’, ‘illogical’ or just plain stupid. Fuck it, I don’t think it’s even worth arguing with people who say stuff like that.
God I wish pro-mask had the support of anti-AI. COVID would have died out before it got out of control with 90% people taking it seriously.