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Fuck no we shouldn't. This is their fucking fault!
None of us wanted this! They've been shoving it down our throats for months, cutting budgets, and redirecting it to AI, all while smugly reminding us that "this is the future, they're the experts, and any oppositions to what they're doing in 2025 would be like opposing the internet circa 1996."
This is the fucking result of allowing the "technocratic elite" to come in and tell countless departments and agencies full of "educated bureaucrats" to just sit back, shut up, and watch how it's done.
The AI bubble is the fucking Dunning Kruger effect in action. Just because some pompous dumbass buys a bunch of planes, and thinks that makes him an expert on planes, and he is then able to convince a bunch of other stupid people he should be allowed to fly a plane, it doesn't mean he actually knows how to fly the fucking plane.
We already made the mistake of allowing him to take over for the pilot and he immediately crashed our plane. Does rewarding him for crashing our plane, and telling him to just brush himself off and hop back in the captain's chair seem like the brightest fucking idea?! ๐ก
-Rich assholes
Don't forget the stupid poor people who can't connect the dots between employees being overpaid and a company not getting enough funding.
If this work was really valuable, then people would be willing to do it for less or be willing to pay more. Otherwise it's just a grift.
When did the public's opinion matter to the government?
Well, eventually the government needs the public to implement policy. For all the talk of the miracles of AI, you can't just shout orders at ChatGPT from the Oval Office and have them become real by magic.
The problem at hand is that some people have rejected these ultra-wealthy racist buffoons in their quest to automate every white collar job. Other people are hopping on the ICE gravy train or getting their beaks wet on the ballooning crypto/tech secondary markets or otherwise profiteering off the back end of the conservative criminal enterprise. And these are the folks with all the institutional authority, the administrative offices, and the loyal trained footsoldiers carrying around the guns.
Cops seem to get along with AI devices just fine. It does the unfun parts of their jobs for them and offers more free time to go around town in a monster truck, ramming people, roughing them up, and filing them into concentration camps. As more and more of the US labor force is told "The only viable path to the middle class is through the police", you're going to see Americans prodded into the police state (or its many subsidiaries and offshoots) as a matter of economic necessity.
Eventually, if its a choice between being on the inside of the fence or the outside of the fence, who wouldn't pick being Winston Smith over some homeless peer who gets beaten to death on the street?