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I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) : What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future. (thenib.com)

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This comic goes over the political history of technology in the workforce, showing that even automation to reduce manual labor was introduced as class warfare against the laborers, and that sabotage, protests and legal action were needed to preserve worker's rights.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The luddites lost in the end with following decades of them being smashed by riot rules and the working class forming as people were corralled into factories.

I am not saying the unions are useless all.the protections we have today like weekends and leave and 40hr (not 80hr) week were won on backs of.imdustrial action.

But you are not going to hold back technology artificially. It should be embraced but ensure the benefits are shared.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@Hogger85b Oh, but their point WASN'T to hold back technology. It was to make sure they didn't starve to death due to the adoption of technology.

That's the same point of people fighting AI right now. We know that technology does not, once put out, get put back. But the way it's being rolled out is over people. Better to work to get things so that it gets rolled out properly, and unfortunately that DOES mean fighting the rollout that the rich have planned and forcing them to put protections for us around it.

And this is the problem with the AI-promoter vs AI-resister thing, promoters are putting out a strawman that "People who are wary of AI just hate progress and are scared of new tech." No, many of us are actually people who work in tech. We're scared of what RICH PEOPLE will do with that tech, and what they are TRYING to do with it.

No one's stopping you from making an AI model on the public domain and using it for your stuff. We don't want Hollywood and Silicon Valley giving it our jobs without creating replacement jobs.