Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that.

But please remember, when the bubble bursts, it won't be those billionaires who suffer. It won't really be the buffoons. It'll be ordinary working class folk who happen to be employed by an organisation that will be hit. Doesn't even have to be an employer that works directly with AI. Could be a caterer whose biggest client is involved with the business. Could be a cleaning company that cleans offices for a business that supplies components that are used in data centres that host AI stuff. And so on.

Remember 2008, 2009. We all know whose fault that crash was, and we all know who suffered most as a result, and those two groups were quite separate.

By the way, please don't anyone interpret this as saying that we need AI to thrive in spite of its harms. Absolutely not. I'm thinking more of the celebratory posts that I increasingly see. We can acknowledge the benefits of AI causing less harm, whilst also respecting the huge numbers of blameless people who will bear the burden of the collapse.

Don't celebrate the loss of low- and middle-income jobs, folks. Have solidarity.

@RolloTreadway there are valid uses for AI but apart from a few cases LLMs are largely harmful being a big source of environmental damage as well as addling peoples brains and polluting our sources of information.

The more we resist their spread and the sooner we can end the hype cycle the less damage there will be.

Goes for the economy too.

@RolloTreadway make guillotine great again

periodic reminder that nobody deserves anything that happens to them

@apophis rich people don’t deserve the fucking PAYOUTS they’re going to get for ruining everything