• Whamburglar@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    AI absolutely has the potential to enable great things that people want, but that’s completely outweighed by the way companies are developing them just for profit and for eliminating jobs

    Capitalism can ruin anything, but that doesn’t make the things it ruins intrinsically bad

    • Debs@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      I used to be so excited about tech announcements. Like…I should be pumped for ai stuff. Now I immediately start thinking about how they are going to use the thing to turn a profit by screwing us over. Can they harvest data with it? Can they charge a subscription for that? I’m getting so jaded.