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Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibility (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

indelibly a product of capitalism

They're being funded by the capitalists that want to replace all those annoying human workers with the cheapest possible alternative.

Of course, the problem is that while a LLM is the cheapest possible option, it's turning out that it's the most useless and garbage one too.

(Also, I'm shockingly infuriated that the tech workers that would end up being the ones replaced the soonest are so busy licking boots rather than throwing their shoes into the machinery.)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Also, I’m shockingly infuriated that the tech workers that would end up being the ones replaced the soonest are so busy licking boots rather than throwing their shoes into the machinery.

    so much of our industry is dedicated to ensuring that tech workers, most of whom consider themselves experts on complex systems, never analyze or try to influence the social systems surrounding and influencing their labor. these are the same loud voices that insist tech isn’t political, while turning important parts of our public and open source tech infrastructure into a Nazi bar.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I don't know if it's the system keeping them from analyzing it so much as it's simply that a good number of tech bros fall into the Actually a Nazi or the Paid Enough They Don't Care categories and for the most part happily keep on doing what they've been doing. If any of them had actual ethics or morals they'd take action, but they just plain don't.

    Perhaps I'm too cynical, but after 20+ years working in tech, with most of the last 10 being in an abuse role at a PaaS company and seeing how management is willing to play endless whataboutism (my favorite was our Jewish lead council going on about how there's nothing wrong with Nazis having a voice and a platform, and then some crazy story about bullying when he was a kid) and the majority of non-management is happy to just shrug and play along and so you end up with a Nazi bar, as you mentioned.

    The problem is that, right now, ALL the bars in this horribly tortured analogy are Nazi bars and everyone gets subjected to the Nazi propaganda.

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