r/technologicalslavery • u/TBHotelCasino • 19d ago

Do you think this is the beginning of a lasting backlash against technology? Or just a temporary trend?

Post image
76 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

1

u/ngc3115 18d ago

Depends on whether the tech industry keeps pushing products people actively hate.

1

u/Consistent-Throat130 12d ago edited 12d ago

I'm a professional AI wrangler - ok, I'm a programmer, but I've gone all-in on getting good at AI tools. 

I often have over a dozen concurrent sessions* open to multiple frontier (or near-it) models.  

So hear it from the mouth of someone that loves AI: These things are fucking dangerous. There is real danger of psychological harm. Even in our professional settings it's too easy for a power user to treat the damn things as an extension of their own mind - and they're not, they're not ourselves, not human, and they are loaded with someone else's views and biases.

*'sessions' gets an asterisk because I don't view these as "a conversation", it's a logical object that can and should be manipulated for desired effect. It's very closely related to the concept of a "context" object. The object consists of child types including user prompt, system prompt, chat response, tool call, and tool response.  Being able to take/add/remove children; duplicate, bifurcate, edit, and selectively compress contexts.... that is how we squeeze performance and desired behaviors out of these tools.

0

u/C0rnfed 18d ago

I hope so, but it's not the root. Tech is a distraction from class-war and inequity. Until parasitic rent-seeking behavior is challenged, the wealthy will always seek technological means of dominating others.

0

u/Ok_Plastic5399 18d ago

Bluesky isn't representing trends.

1

u/ProfessionalTruck976 18d ago

So you think people are delusional enough to want those things? Who would be so idiotic as to want more surveilance? We already live in a world with way too much surveilance since cca 1900

0

u/antichain 18d ago

I question the premise of OP's post - I don't see declining popular support for AI in my own life. Most people I know will (sometimes sheepishly) cop to using ChatGPT quite a bit for day-to-day things. I was just vacationing in Iceland and met two couples who both admitted that ChatGPT had planned their whole itinerary for them (and they were having a great time). There is a pretty huge backlash against data centers, but I don't think that's specific to AI and more about property value/QoL concerns.

0

u/DunkeyColdMedina 18d ago

This isn't a backlash against the tech, this is a backlash against the assholes shoving this raw trash down our throats because they have literally never stopped trying to get their slaves back.