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"Anti-ai arguments literally support eugenics" (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Reminds me of this:

I think atproto is a good protocol, but god bluesky-the-company is dogshit.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fuckin' clanker lovers.

It's only bigotry if you believe machines incapable of thought or feeling deserve human rights. In which case, you have bigger problems than people being "racist" against bullshit-ass generative AI.

[+] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone -7 points 4 months ago (8 children)

idk, I’ve seen enough people call ai users

CW: racist bullshit but with words swapped

"clanker-loving species traitors"

to know that some anti-ai stuff is steeped in bigotry (and yes, it’s still bigotry if it’s ironic btw)

i don’t think most anti-ai people are like this. but some absolutely are and denying it helps no one, and it harms marginalized people

[–] ebu@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

from what i see, white people simply clamor for a context in which they're "allowed" to finally call someone the n-word, and are willing to accept substitute targets for their racism

add in a protective cloak of "it's ironic and a joke and YOU'RE the real racist for pointing this out" and you get a whole lot of people who are extremely okay slinging around barely modified racial slurs

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

right???

in retrospect, me making this about ai was a mistake, cause it is not the only place this shows up!

[–] ebu@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

and people get very defensive about this one too. like i'm pretty confident that coolboy004 on reddit is not giving a nuanced delivery on the ethics of a company running an ai-powered call center when he types "screws will not replace us" in all caps on /r/fuckai, and yet

i think it sucks that we're stuck with, say, bluesky engineers genuinely trying to pull the most moronic variant of "but what if the stochastic text generator might have feelings in the future too", but we still need to be able to talk about why people feel the need to make "clanka with the hard r" jokes (answer it's racism)

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm really sorry to say this, I'm sure you're a lovely person, but fuck out of here with all that bullshit.

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

you’ve never posted on our instance before as far as I can tell and I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask you to fucking gatekeep one of our threads and start a shitty little fight that I have to clean up

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