Fuck AI

Well yes, that's the goal of all technological progress. Ya think we have assembly lines in factories for the fun of it? Or machines automating what used to be artisanal work? CNC machines making parts that used to be forged for example. Do you think the goal of the tractor is anything more than to get by with fewer workers on the fields?

Hell, go as far back as the invention of the printing press and the owners of these could stop relying on monks copying everything by hand.

You can avoid AI altogether or if you can find a genuinely good use case for it, you can potentially use it to start a company with fewer employees, meaning less starting capital needed.

At the end of the day your problem is with capitalism and the boomers who want to retire on even larger piles of cash, not the tool that could actually be used to reduce the need for capital if it was as good as the people selling it wasn't you to think.

That's only if Hyperscale AI doesn't prove to be a bubble. If AI ends up as regular software, it's a different story.

Basically, Hyperscale AI turned computing to a capital intensive industry, when it was a labour intensive industry before (which is why developers were so well paid). If that stabilizes as the new normal, then the meme is 100% true. If it turns out that after a certain point, throwing more hardware at the models doesn't really improve them AND things like quantization that turn LLMs/agents into software anyone can run on basic hardware, then we are in a different timeline.

wealth:skill::capital:labour

It’s not a new concept, and neither are the countermeasures or remedies.

Anyone know who said this?

Wealth has always had access to skill. AI just gave them access that's even cheaper, and less likely to complain and unionize.

knowledge and data is not really skill, but i get what they were referring to

We need to seriously deal with the wealthy, they seem intent on killing everyone else.

And as a side effect it’s destroying the next generation’s access to skill by undermining the education system.

where is this quote? I'd rather share that than some influencer quoting the quote.

Oofta, felt that in my stomach...The truth of its impactful. I love when people can succinctly summarize the purpose of things.

All these people at work are so eager to devalue themselves. They're rushing to have AI do their work and accepting the same pay.

Skill, but also copyright.

The goal of the owners is to rid themselves of paying for things they feel entitled to. AI is another step towards total control for the real owners of this country (USA).

in other words: "Make the rich richer while fucking everyone else into the dirt with all available violence."

This is one of those times I like to be a pedant and separate LLMs and other generating bots from what I think most people would consider intelligence. Real intelligence made from silicon could serve all of humanity, but LLMs are just the next fancy shitcoin the wealthy and their hangers-on want to convince you spits out something that has high value when it clearly doesn't (unless you're in the propaganda business).

Edited for clarity