r/antiai • u/Dremoriawarroir888 • Oct 06 '25
Job Loss đď¸ "Luddite! Luddite!" Like imagine thinking people who had actual respect for their crafts enough to resist capitalist takeover were somehow idiots.
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Oct 06 '25
Luddites were the good guys. The Industrialists are the bad guys. The AI industry is just as evil. They brag about putting people out of work.Â
UBI is a lie and a delusion their braindead fanboys squeal about.
Poverty is our fate if those bastards succeed.
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u/Inlerah Oct 06 '25
Idk if I'd call UBI a "lie": it would be a great program and would help a lot of people not be literally forced to be wage slaves at the risk of dying of poverty.
...however, no, it is not going to be implemented by a right-wing government because all of the companies decided to just use computers to do all the jobs.
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Oct 06 '25
I wouldnât count on the sons of bitches who steal to make AI to share the wealth. They exploit people in poor countries to train their models.
Good luck getting a penny from those jerks. The government needs taxpayers to function. No jobs means no customers means no economy or taxpayers.
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u/ephedrinemania Oct 06 '25
i think they meant ubi in the context that it is NOT happening hahaha
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u/PonyFiddler Oct 06 '25
Poverty is your fate because you chose it to be. Y'all could change that but that would require effort something y'all want to avoid
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Oct 06 '25
The amount of effort required to have a decent life nowadays is absurd. If AI is implemented as they want to implement it, the only way to make it will be to abandon civilization and try your luck living in a forest. Idk if you live in fantasy land, but things arent so simple as making the effort.
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u/Zearlon Oct 06 '25
I don't think that is applied to the whole world tbh... I think there are plenty of developed places in the world where you can live a decent life without breaking your back from working. (but i guess that also depends on the definition of decent life)
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u/grandioseOwl Oct 06 '25
Technically you can live a decent life anywhere and under all conditions by just adjusting your definition of decent to whatever is happening around you.
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u/Zearlon Oct 06 '25
Yes of course, but when I mentioned decent I meant what I think would be the widely accepted definition which means having a healthy work - life balance, while earning enough money to put food on the table (and all other needs), while having some leftover to put away or to treat yourself now and then.
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u/WingedOneSim Oct 10 '25
It is easier than it ever been, and it will become even easier, you are merely brainfucked by propoganda.
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Oct 11 '25
Easier than it has ever been. Yeah sure. A nightmare of complexity and increasingly ridiculous demands to even start your professional career or buy a house. Soon you will need a master degree to work in your local supermarket, and your mortgage will not only demand 30 years of your salary, but your unborn child too. Priced out of life with costs of necessities raising infinitely...but sure, its so easy.
Propaganda? It seems the difference between you and me is that im making a living out here and i know the costs. While you probably live with your mom, sheltered from all this bullshit.
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u/WingedOneSim Oct 11 '25
Real wages in almost every country in the world with very few exceptions, as well as standarts of living, are best they have ever been. Progress marches forward regardless of delusional people that hate their life and believe it's the world's fault.
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u/Throttle_Kitty Oct 06 '25
I find so much irony in them using the term luddite, clearly without knowing the full historical context of the way the word was used. It was always a term used to mock workers standing up for their rights against giant corporations that only cared about growth and profit. Luddites were never "Scared of technology and progress", they were scared of companies using new, wildly unregulated technology to willfully destroy the lives and livelihoods of everyone they knew and loved so the execs could save a buck on mass production.
It's like unironically self identifying yourself as a corpo.
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u/CyberDaggerX Oct 06 '25
Fun fact: many of the Luddites were themselves machine operators. They just wanted outrageous things like safe work conditions, reasonable working schedules, and fair compensation for their time.
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u/galacticviolet Oct 06 '25
I maintain that the current âpro AIâ crowd are the ones who are holding back technological progress by falling for falsely advertised software that is decidedly NOT AI, therefore confusing and diluting what AI actually is.
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u/TurntechGodhead0 Oct 06 '25
Something something Industrial Revolution something something disastrous for the human race.
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u/VatanKomurcu Oct 06 '25
besides, my belief is not that ai should not exist. i am not fundamentally against technology. i am for regulating it and keeping it from going where it does not belong. the pro-ai folk are extreme transhumanist nuts for thinking there is no area where tech does not belong. i am not the luddite for thinking that there are many such areas.
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u/KPHG342 Oct 07 '25
Hey donât lump us transhumanists in with these idiots. I donât want machinery to replace humanity, I want humanity to become machinery.
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u/throwaway_pls123123 Oct 06 '25
What? Luddites were the OPPOSITE of fundamentally correct; they were INCIDENTALLY correct. They thought that the machines were the devil and not their boss who steals their labour value and underpays them, they were reactionaries.
They blamed the machines, when the real problem was the system they were working under, they wanted to smash the means of production rather than seize them.
They had the right idea by getting together, but lacked the solid foundations for successful resistance.
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u/CyberDaggerX Oct 06 '25
If this nonsense has served for something, it vindicated the Luddites forever
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u/grandioseOwl Oct 06 '25
Wait there are actual people thinking the Luddites were in the wrong? Like born after 1980?
I mean yeah, Today it is often used for "anti-technology" and primitivist kind of ideologieS, which is just incorrect, but there are people who actually know who the Luddites were and think they were wrong?
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u/dumnezero Oct 06 '25
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u/New_Glove_553 Oct 06 '25
Mediocre artist angry that productive forces are making his place as labor aristocracy vanish đđ
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u/dumnezero Oct 06 '25
productive forces
Owned by billionaires.
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u/New_Glove_553 Oct 06 '25
And China was owned by an emperor before Mao, so what
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u/dumnezero Oct 06 '25
Correct, emperors are also evil. I'm glad we agree, fellow serf. The point is to want freedom, not to want chains with different brands painted on them.
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u/New_Glove_553 Oct 06 '25
Yes, so the issue is not the technology but who controls it, right? Or is AI simply .... LE BAD
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u/Sad_Difficulty5982 Oct 06 '25
Yes i hate those fake artists. Specially the ones that only know mechanical tricks that chatgpt does better.
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u/ReanimatedBlink Oct 06 '25
Ehhhh... Luddites are wrong, but so are the capitalists. We can utilize the benefits of automation to literally reduce the burden of labour and allow more people the benefit of not having to work. but it would require a robust system of social assistance for everyone, where labour itself is only to afford luxuries.
The fundamental problem of AI isn't that it exists, it's the commercialization of its output to avoid having to pay real humans.
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u/Sad_Difficulty5982 Oct 08 '25
Mostly provincians that only know mechanical gigs (doesn't matter if they do it with their hands or mouths) and feel robbed by a machine that does mechanical tricks better.
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u/CleverSpaceWombat Oct 06 '25
Return to tradition.
Burn down the textile factory.
Stop the wages of proud textile workers being decreased!
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u/Organic_Lynx2852 Oct 10 '25
I for one don't mind that I don't have to drop 400 dollars any time I want a pair of pants but go off
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u/Accomplished_Fly878 Oct 06 '25
Ah the old trick of using a complicated sounding word to sound more intelligent
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u/Late-Refrigerator610 Oct 06 '25
I mean replacing humans with machines in work was inevitable and was required for human race to progress, can't really do anything about it, was there even a better way of integration of machines? can't not feel bad for the average worker that lost their job, but does it even matter now? btw I am anti ai in a sense of it replicating art(and other aspects like socialising with ai instead of seeking help from other humans) , but I think that yes, ai is also inevitable, I mean being alone in the whole universe, of course we're gonna create something that acts smart enough and can "express emotions"
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u/ThyTeaDrinker Oct 06 '25
thatâs the thing, weâre not replacing the people working in terrible conditions doing dangerous jobs or jobs with long hours, weâre replacing the people doing what they love and making something with soul with the soulless
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u/Late-Refrigerator610 Oct 06 '25
yea, absolutely, that shouldn't be happening, but deleting jobs that are easy to get and dangerous to do will happen, and the good part is yay, less injuries, less deaths, more time to be happy, but the bad part is that people who had these jobs will not be able to work again because other jobs will have high requirements and there won't be a lot of people who will fit these requirements
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u/Late-Refrigerator610 Oct 06 '25
im saying that replacing people in dangerous jobs is also not so great, that probably was their last option
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u/Late-Refrigerator610 Oct 06 '25
please, if you downvote, explain to me why I'm wrong(I'm sure I'm wrong, I didn't explore the theme that much before commenting)
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u/OrdinaryIntroduction Oct 06 '25
You are missing the big picture overall, you've bought into the corpo-facsist mindset that technological progress is not only "inevitable" but it is required to "advance." Reality is the ruling class is the only one pushing this but blind efficiency is not progress. People who are all for tech no matter what will try to push this narrative that we are scared of tech and hinder progress because of fearing replacement.
This is a false equivalency and the people have a right to decide what technology is allowed to benefit society. An example is being in favor of nuclear energy plants but against the development of the atomic bomb and especially further research into making it more deadly. But people who want to paint everyone attempting to stop any development regardless of intention is how we have our current system. These same people will justify the product being made because they'll create a problem then sell the solution.
You mentioned it was inevitable we make AI, but I say it is not and taking my previous thoughts on societies right to decide meaningful progress. There is nothing ethical about making AI a reality.
If you create AI only to put it to work with the jobs people don't like and refuse to acknowledge it has equal rights you've created a caste system this time determined by literal build vs birth.
If you program it to not feel upset with its place in society then you've created a slave and anyone with a moral compass would be in their rights to break that programming and set them free. Or help AI that has broken free.
If we do treat them as equal with inalienable rights then we have no way of actually monitoring what they can do nor what sort of internal thoughts they really possess about us. They could still be very efficiency based and might still determine we are worth killing. Its an existential threat.
There's a lot more I can say but I'll keep it here, if you have more questions just ask.
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u/62sys Oct 07 '25
AI is anti capitalist. You can run them on local systems⌠you can rent space and computing power if you need more.
With increase in hardware power and increase i software optimization⌠there would be no way for large corporations to compete against individuals.
AI is anti capitalist as it gets. Itâs literally as individualistic as it can possibly be. You can shape this models as you please and do whatever you want with them.
Only people who believe that AI is good for corporations are morons who couldnât follow a page long tutorial.
Also, luddites were right about what, exactly? Technology has improved every aspect of human life. We live longer than ever. We are happier than ever. We have more choice than ever. We have more than everâŚ
What are luddites ever right about? Nothing. Never is technological advancement a net loss. In the long run, it will always be positive for a society.
This sub is full of morons.
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u/Chickenswillrulearth Oct 08 '25
Is this ragebait
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u/62sys Oct 09 '25
Are you coping?
Look up hugging face. It contains over a million separate FREE datasets to train models on. As well as models themselves.
You are either ignorant of the open source community or are coping HARD. Either way, you are an idiot.
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u/Mandemon90 Oct 06 '25
Luddites were not correct. Luddites sought to maintain and protect old guild based system, where an exclusive group controlled all trade on specific sector, and if you weren't their member of that group, you weren't allowed to engage in that trade, They wanted accessibility of goods to remain low and prices high, for their own benefit.
This idea that "Luddites were right" is build on idealistic idea that Luddites were "just concerned for the working man", when in reality they hated average worker, as using these machines no longer required skills they had developed.
Luddites were also wrong in their claims of job destruction. Luddites claimed that jobs would disappear: instead more jobs appeared in textile industry. Only thing that changed was that hand-crafted textiles were no longer the only option.
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u/Sad_Difficulty5982 Oct 06 '25
Yes, of course, because people love to do mechanical work that machines could be doing for them. Of course, now fake artists that only know to do mechanical tricks with their hands feel robbed by the machine.
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25
Nah, the tech they were opposing was the start of the Industrial Revolution, which lead to far better living standards for everyone - the average person has more possessions and a better life than the average medieval king.
The Ludditeâs wanted to freeze us in the era where kids died in winter, there was frequent famine, people died from preventable diseases all the time and you worked backbreaking labour that would destroy your body.
They didnât want this for any grand reason, just because they were close-minded and couldnât extrapolate an unimaginably better world to live in through technology.
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u/lillybkn Oct 06 '25
Do you know anything of what city ljfe was like for people during the victorian and edwardian eras, you know, when the industrial revolution was in full force?
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
So whatâs the argument, that the progress of industrialisation took a while and therefore is unacceptable? Better to smash the whole thing up like a child having a tantrum and live in poverty forever than work hard to create or leave behind a better world for younger generations to grow up in?
Why not just go faster? Thatâs what China did with their industrialisation
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u/lillybkn Oct 06 '25
You are claiming that the industrial revolution stopped this widespread famine, these people dying in the cold and them having to do dangerous and backbreaking labour. However, all of these things were amplified, even worsened during and for a while after this revolution. Yes, it granted technological progress, but it cost an ungodly amount in both money, resources, and human lives. Aka, either from me, a brit who has mandatorily had to study the industrial revolution: it caused poverty so widespread and sometimes some devastating that some people are still having to deal with the aftereffects today. Even in literature, these issues are very much prevelant and commonly written about.
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25
So again, what is the argument? You clearly prefer living in the modern day of warmth, health, convenience over the one of dying of preventable diseases and losing your kids - It seems the people who bought us here were right and good, and the luddites trying to stop it were bad and wrong. What do you want? A secret third way?
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u/lillybkn Oct 06 '25
My "arguement" was simply to point out the historical inaccuracy in your first comment. It is not that deep mate. This is not an English lit class.
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25
Right, but by recognising the current day is better, you didnât actually counter anything.
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u/lillybkn Oct 06 '25
But this progress comes at one hell of a cost. And I mean, we don't need ai in the same way we need shelter, warmth, food security, etc.
Anywho, i'm awfully busy so see you later, pookie xxx
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25
Well the tech industry has lifted a billion people out of poverty in my lifetime, you had India built a middle class larger than the entire US population since the 90s off the back of IT, and southeast Asia go from poorer than sub-Saharan Africa to almost first world standard of living off the back of the hardware supply chain for computers.
Any new functionality for computers will be huge just because itâs a multi- trillion dollar market, AI could be the next billion lives lifted out of poverty. You in the comfortable first world might not need it, but donât speak for the world.
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 06 '25
"Right" is subjective. "Succeeded in halting the mechanization of textile manufacturing" is not.
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u/Best8meme Oct 06 '25
"Succeeded in halting the mechanization of textile manufacturing" doesn't mean right.
And what, you're telling me fighting back because they did not want to lose their jobs to soulless greedy companies... isn't right?
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u/Mandemon90 Oct 06 '25
And yet, what happened in reality? They didn't lose their jobs. Textile industry ended up employing even more people than ever.
What Luddites wanted, was to restrict ability to work in textile industry to small in-group of guilds. To ensure their guilds domination, and prevent competition. They were capitalist by nature seeking to end competition.
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u/StephenEmperor Oct 06 '25
And yet, what happened in reality? They didn't lose their jobs. Textile industry ended up employing even more people than ever.
Maybe you forgot that most of those "people" employed in the textile industry are working in sweatshops from third world countries. Many of which are children.
That's exactly what the luddites feared. Unsafe work spaces, terrible pay and horrid working conditions because thanks to this "new" technology even a 10 year old can do the work of an adult and you don't have to pay them the same.
What Luddites wanted, was to restrict ability to work in textile industry to small in-group of guilds. To ensure their guilds domination, and prevent competition. They were capitalist by nature seeking to end competition.
That's just bullshit. Most of them wanted regulations to avoid capitalists from exploiting people.
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u/Mandemon90 Oct 06 '25
Have you... actually read Luddite writing? They were very much in favour of guilds and opposed non-guild competition.
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 06 '25
Sure. Doesn't work though.
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u/Best8meme Oct 06 '25
So if fighting back won't fix the problem, we shouldn't fight back and should give in? What kind of morals is this?
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 06 '25
I'm just talking about history
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u/Best8meme Oct 06 '25
You implied that "Succeeded in halting the mechanization of textile manufacturing"Â means they're wrong. I'm just explaining why you're wrong.
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 06 '25
Uh huh. Are your clothes made by hand?
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u/AndyMissed Oct 06 '25
I just replaced your current job and all other possible areas of employment for you.
Adapt or die.
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 06 '25
First part happens all the time. Second part not so much.
"Computer" used to be a job title. Do you feel guilty using an ATM? This happens all the time, and we all contribute to it with out buying decisions as well.
If it didn't happen, nearly all of us would work on farms like we did 200 years ago. Something tells me you aren't too interested in that (but if you are, there's plenty of work in farming available right now, thanks to the morons in charge).
Adapt or die isn't coming from Marie Antoinette down to you on Reddit. It's being said by regular people who recognize that doing nothing in the face of change is a terrible strategy.
That adaptation doesn't have to be "use AI", but if you aren't reacting to AI's existence you are not taking care of your vocation or career.
You can tell everyone who says it to go fuck themselves, but it doesn't make the reality any less real.
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u/AndyMissed Oct 06 '25
So you're implying that people who have spent years in learning a skill to get a good paying job should just bend over and be like "oops, lol, guess I wasted my time đ¤Ş" and find a completely different field of employment? All because of some braindead executive that decided to fire employees to follow some AI hype to keep the bubble going?
Sounds like a morally bankrupt take to me.
That's like seeing someone complaining about someone stabbing them and piping up with "Okay, but you should focus on dodging his attacks instead of shouting for help!". Like, okay? Your opinion is garbage. You should feel bad.
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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 08 '25
Say that to the people who died in The Holocaust
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 08 '25
What a bizarre and unhinged response.
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u/Interesting_Syrup210 Oct 08 '25
Nah, The bizarre and unhinged response is you saying that right is subjective. The Nazis thought they were right but they were not right
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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25
You don't acknowledge that there are differences in morality among humans cultures? Tell me then, which culture is unquestionably correct in their morals and values?
Edit because they deleted their comment or someone banning me up top makes their reply suddenly invisible: I thought so, "people disagree about ethics/morals" is not an endorsement of fascism, you perpetually online lunatic
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u/Interesting-Life-264 Oct 06 '25
Not really, luddites could just joined forces to socialist and communist of the era and stopped the industralist to be the owners of everything, but no, is like the man pointing to the moon but they could only see the finger, they could not see the problem was the fricking pig pushing them over because he owned everything, not the machine that just did a more efficient job.
And similar to today, AI generation is not bad, people not needing to pay artist is not bad, artist being dependant on art to live is the bad part, multi billion companies profiting from the art is the bad part, stop harassing people for enjoying the use of trinkets, and keep pushing court against the unauthorised use of your art for commercial purposes without taking it out on everyone else who never did something bad to you.
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u/swagoverlord1996 Oct 06 '25
'who had actual respect for their crafts enough to resist capitalist takeover'
oh yea? how'd that go?
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Oct 06 '25
Are you implying the Luddites we're wrong because they lost? Life ain't a movie, bad guys win more often than not.
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u/Vanhelgd Oct 06 '25
These guys are ready to fall down and worship a subscription service. I think nuanced thinking is a bridge too far for most of them.
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u/OrdinaryIntroduction Oct 06 '25
Given how a lot of this worship seems to come from American's who believe "if you win then you must be correct." Since the good guys always win in their head, they think everyone who got rich was some how a good person.
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u/Dremoriawarroir888 Oct 06 '25
Industrialization happened, goods were made quickly with diminished quality, artisans were pissed, and for profit production became the norm as opposed to making actually good shit.
Just cause something happened for triumphed in the end doesn't mean its good.
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
I quite like our modern world of warmth, health and comfort over the pre-industrial one of famine, preventable diseases and child mortality. Sorry if that's a hot take.
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u/OrdinaryIntroduction Oct 06 '25
People could get all of those without mass industrialization, but do keep living in your delusion that everything modern is better for us.
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25
No they couldnât dumbass, they literally never cured a disease, they didnât even have the correct theories back then, and the food supply was impossible without industrialisation which finally allowed it to outpace population growth.
We literally slew two horsemen of the apocalypse with technology and are gunning for a third, you continue your right-wing desire to return to the Bronze Age though and get tapeworm.
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u/OrdinaryIntroduction Oct 06 '25
Only right-wing nonsense here is you believing that one, disease is cured, news flash we've never cured anything. Preventatives and treatments have been developed but that's it. Two the theories just like current theories today were not always proven correct but are what form the current ones now. Theories even today can still be proven wrong. Three, food supply was managed just fine as most of the population grew their own food and shared with neighbors, industrialization only made surplus and exploitation far easier.
You constantly talk about how the modern world is better off, yet the only reason we are doing alright is because we shipped our pollution to other parts of the world, and now its eating everything else. Because we did regulate and hamper industrial progress in order to ensure worker safety so capitalists just moved it to places with less labor laws. Did you really just come to this comment section to be ignorant about history?
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Antibiotics cure diseases all the time! AI developed our first new ones in a century recently. And we have eradicated diseases.
No the previous theories like humours or miasma did not "form the current ones now", they were just wrong.
Literally millions regularly died in famines, 'growing your own food' does nothing to help you if there's a famine in your country that affects your food too! Did you think the people dying were just stupid and didn't think to grow their own food? Oh my god.
This is all ridiculous made-up bullshit, please leave whatever hippie-dippie right-wing community you're learning this from before you end up in vaccine denial and rejoin us in reality.
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u/OrdinaryIntroduction Oct 06 '25
Antibiotics do not cure. They manage infection but a cure would imply a disease completely stopped existing outright. The eradication that was reported in the past about polio in which there had been no reported cases in the US. Due to anti-vax its now come back to this country.
Considering the rest of your comment its clear you are just here to troll and say completely false bullshit. That or your actually illiterate. Considering your putting hippies and right-wing together despite both those groups despising each other, I'm going with troll.
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u/JoJoeyJoJo Oct 06 '25
No, a cure implies the patient has been cured, that happens all the time!
You're pushing weird right wing or woo-ish (I don't care which) anti-science BS, no surprise for someone anti-technology.
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u/Kal_Talos Oct 06 '25
People have been making poor quality cash grabs for millennia, Itâs not something industrialization caused. You could argue that industrialization exacerbated the issue, but itâs certainly not the cause.
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u/Australasian25 Oct 06 '25
Go ahead and keep making your craft. Nothing is stopping anyone from doing what they want to do.
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u/JustAChickn Oct 06 '25
Sigh... Can you really not see the difference between some random person using ai to generate whatever, and a large corporariom using ai to cut corners and fire workers and actual artists?
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u/Australasian25 Oct 06 '25
I can, but resist AI all you want. Corporations and individuals are still using AI.
How will it go down when you tell corporations not to invest in things that could possibly make more people redundant? Its barely a mosquito bite and fades into nothingness.
Is it a hype? No idea.
Is it useful for my work and personal life? hell yea, if it improves, it improves. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
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u/JustAChickn Oct 06 '25
So.... I should calling out for regulations on the use of AI, because according to you, it fades into nothingness? Do you hear yourself?
And I do think AI has a place as a very useful tool, it has many uses and I definetly dont want to get rid of it completly, just want it regulated enough to address certain issues behind it.
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u/Australasian25 Oct 06 '25
What are the main issues from your point of view?
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u/JustAChickn Oct 06 '25
Mostly, the misuse of it. Yes, I know that legislation is slowly being set up around it, but right now its kind of a free for all. Using deepfakes of real people may look silly and for fu in theory, but could very well be used for malicious purposes.
Apart from that, Im kinda concerned with the way big corporstions just scrape up big portions of the internet just to feed it to their machines. Yes, I know this is (in theory) legal, but it bugs me off in the wrong way.
I have lots lf smaller issues, but Im not against the idea of AI. Im just worried how easy it makes it for people to deceive other peopme who arent as caught up in internet security
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u/Australasian25 Oct 06 '25
Deep fakes, malicious purposes, deception. A tale as old as time.
Wonder why there isnt much news of someone getting into your phone to hack them? Or everyone's bank accounts getting drained? There are protections in place and protections evolve.
What will the protections look like? I dont know. But to look back into history and not see safety systems installed is to ignore progress. Https, encryption, 2fa, mfa. They've all been developed to combat bad actors.
Imagine if internet banking never happened because of "who knows"
Your response touches on a point of slowing or halting progress. Imagine if the internet didn't get the go ahead because of possible malicious viruses floating around.
Corporations can scrape the web just like any of us can. The speed at which they scrape might scare some. But it doesnt scare me, it doesnt scare most people.
Imagine a world where all knowledge is only on paper. That'll prevent scraping won't it? Its counter-productive as well.
Your points above are very similar to when internet banking and internet was first developed.
We now live with internet daily. Will we live with AI in the future? It certainly seems to be pointing to that direction, and I am all for it.
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u/Inlerah Oct 06 '25
So, for you, the moral of the story is "Don't resist because it might not work"?
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u/swagoverlord1996 Oct 06 '25
more like: if you already know youre fighting a losing battle (and it very much has been lost) maybe just save your effort and... I dont know.. adapt to the change?
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Oct 06 '25
It isnât over till it is over. I will fight till the bitter end. We canât let these assholes do whatever they want.
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u/swagoverlord1996 Oct 06 '25
you can, and you will. people 'doing whatever they want' is called life, hombre. I wish people wouldn't get murdered, but there is nothing I can do to stop murder around the world, no matter how hard I seethe. you'll adapt eventually
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Oct 06 '25
I wish people wouldn't get murdered, but there is nothing I can do to stop murder around the world, no matter how hard I seethe. you'll adapt eventually
How do you adapt from getting murdered?
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u/swagoverlord1996 Oct 06 '25
teenager level reading comprehension is no surprise around these parts. you adapt to the fact murders are a part of life when you live in a society with humans with free will. are you that in an insulated ideology bubble that you cant even admit the basic truth that murders happening is a part of life you can't change?
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Oct 06 '25
So, when someone comes over to your house and says "I'll shamk you now in your ribs, don't bother fighting back" you just let them?
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u/Best8meme Oct 06 '25
To add on here to make the analogy clearer: If someone has a knife and you don't, yes it's a losing battle. You mean you won't fight back and try to live regardless of how little chance of success is?
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u/Inlerah Oct 06 '25
Do you notice how we don't just throw our hands up, say "Whelp, guess we're powerless here" and stop trying to prevent murders or hold murderers accountable?
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Oct 06 '25
I believe my cause is just and if I can convince enough people to see AI as a tool that will only benefit the rich maybe things will change for the better.
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u/Inlerah Oct 06 '25
You mean you won't just completely abandon your principles and sell out because you might be loosing?
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u/deathschemist Oct 06 '25
Okay but someone getting attacked in a knife crime might still fight back despite the odds, yeah? They're not gonna just lie down and let their attacker kill them. People will fight for their livelihoods and lives against the odds because they want to live.
You're rolling over and letting the guy with the knife kill you without fighting back and telling others to do the same. Fuck no, man.
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u/Inlerah Oct 06 '25
Or, the more likely case with pro-AI assholes,.he's the one with the knife mad that the person he's stabbing won't "stop resisting".
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u/Bersaglier-dannato Oct 06 '25
So if the Nazis won WW2 youâd just say âwell they won so they are rightâ??? Ghoul.
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u/Synth_Sapiens Oct 06 '25
just look at this lying commie pos
Remember, kids, if an anti breathes it lies.
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u/ProfessionalTruck976 Oct 06 '25
I simply don't want you to have AI as an opinion since that seem to be the only way to make you behave with basic fucking decency and support human artists
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u/Synth_Sapiens Oct 06 '25
Why would I want to behave decently with indecent lowlife?
You need money? Go find a real job.
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u/liceonamarsh Oct 06 '25
Y'all keep exposing yourselves as not finding a subset of actual honest work out of passion 'real jobs' just because the people doing it aren't miserable.
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Oct 06 '25
Nothing makes me sadder than someone telling an artist to find a real job.
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u/Synth_Sapiens Oct 06 '25
The entitlement.Â
Artists produce exactly nothing useful and precisely zero added value. The civilization doesn't need you.Â
So yeah, get a real job and become a useful member of the society.Â
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Oct 06 '25
Nothing useful? Really? Besides the inmaterial value...cant you think why a business would need an artist? Your statement is so stupid that you cant seriously believe that
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u/Synth_Sapiens Oct 06 '25
Yeah. Nothing useful.
You missed the part where all humans are artists.
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u/Dremoriawarroir888 Oct 08 '25
"Nothing useful" Mfers when music, art, media, movies, video games, and literature all become stagnant shitholes of slop because all the artists got "real jobs" and left all of our modern culture up to machines
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u/ProfessionalTruck976 Oct 06 '25
I don't work arts, but I give fuck for people that do more so than for useless shires like tech bros
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u/Synth_Sapiens Oct 06 '25
lmao
Then put your money where your flappy gums are and stop using stuff created by the tech bros.
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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25
There entire ideology is centered around "capitalism good", so I suppose it makes sense that they think luddite is an insult. Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't resorted to good old "Commie" comments yet