No disagreement, but it’s like hating water because the capitalist machine used to run water mills. It’s a tool, what we hate is the system and players working to entrench themselves and it. Should we be concerned about the people affected? Yes, of course, we always should have been, even before it was the “creative class” and white collar workers at risk. We should have been concerned when it was blue collar workers being automated or replaced by workers in areas with repressive regimes. We should have been concerned when it was service workers being increasingly turned into replaceable cogs.

We should do something, but people are titling at windmills instead of the systems that oppress people. We should be pushing for these things to be public goods (open source like stability is aiming for, distributed and small models like Petals.dev and TinyML). We should be pushing for unions to prevent the further separation of workers from the fruits of their labor (look at the Writer’s Guild’s demands during their strike). We should be trying to only deal with worker and community cooperatives so that innovations benefit workers and the community instead of being used against them. And much more! It’s a lot, but it’s why I get mad about people wasting their time being made AI tools exist and raging against them instead of actually doing things to improve the root issues.

The “AI hate train” runs on fear and skips stops for reason, headed for a fictional destination.

Not saying that there aren’t people like that, but this ain’t it. This tool specifically targets open source. The intention is to ruin things that aren’t owned and controlled by someone. A big part of AI hate is hyper-capitalist like that, though they know better than saying it openly.

People hoping for a payout get more done than people just being worried or frustrated. So it’s hardly a surprise that they get most of the attention.

Thing is, its capitalism thats our enemy, not the tech that is freeing us up from labour. Its not the tech thats the problem, its our society, and if fucking sucks that I’m just as poor as the rest of you, but because I finally have a tool that lets me satisfactorily lets me access my creativity, I’m being villianized by the art community, even though the tech I am using is open source and no capitalist is profiting off of me