“This represents a remarkable evolution in the government’s case. In 2022: not worth a speeding ticket. In 2025: international human trafficking kingpin.”
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in reply to clarity flowers • • •I read that blog post and when I got to that sentence the first thing I thought of was how those old crafts turned out to be the only sustainable ways to make things.
Mass manufacturing? Only works if it uses slavery. Plastics? Planetary cancer. Poultry and pig farms? Pandemic incubators. Greenhouse farms? Thousands of liters of posions to get veggies that taste bland. And so on and so forth for every industry.
I would really like if AI turned out to be as good as they sell it, it would be an insanely powerful tool, but the reality is that it's being sold by the same kind of people that sold us tech equivalents of forever chemicals over and over and this isn't just resentment against "big corpo", the number of CVEs, flubs, leaks and failures that AI has introduced into projects old and new in its very short lifespan are an objective way to measure whether they lied to us and this is yet another new software PFAS or not.
datarama
in reply to clarity flowers • • •What they're saying is "I want *you* to be paid less to make worse software".
They, as always, imagine themselves as the one paying less, not the one being paid less.
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