Post by @dragnucs@lemmy.ml

2026-10-19 17:42 UTC

I know you will not like my response and would not agree to it. I am not defending big companies, but having or hosting the data is the easy and cheapest part. Actually ingesting and training it is the hardest and most resource consuming. If it was that easy I would have done it at home and not have to rely on a cloud service, but since I tried and realized I would need at least a $2000 system to get anything useful I chose to pay a 5$ monthly fee. Compared to what it needs to run something that doesn’t just give a good output but a productive output would have cost me magnitudes more than $2000. So they are not just freeloading on our work. The real issue I would agree on and defend would be resource consumption like electricity and water.

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@dropdrip@lemmy.ml 2026-10-21 09:13

Something you’re not acknowledging is that this technology stems from surveillance-capitalism and the surveillance-state. Google et al were financed to solve the needs of the state. Google search for consumers was a by-product from the state’s need and desire to make sense of their mass-surveillance programs. Surveillance-capitalism operates under complete deception. Pokemon Go players didn’t know they were collecting data for autonomous-murder-drones. Solving Google’s Captchas was unpaid labour: you were creating data for Google’s OCR program and now you’re creating data for autonomous cars or whatever their investors want you to toil on next. The original iteration of reCAPTCHA was criticized for using unpaid work to assist in transcribing efforts.[40] A 13-month study published in 2023, “Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,” found that reCAPTCHA provides little security against bots and is primarily a tool to track user data, and has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of unpaid human labor. Out of all this theft, unpaid labour and intrusive surveillance what does the working class get? Housing costs are increasing. Food costs are increasing. Poverty is increasing. What is AI going to do for us? It’s not building houses. It’s not harvesting crops. It’s not giving the working class any material benefit, but is further degrading living conditions. Enjoy the endless drone of a data-center! Enjoy breathing the fumes of gas-turbines! Enjoy talking to chatbots and never a human! AI is deployed as a barrier between the working class and businesses. AI is deployed to decrease labour costs. AI is deployed to kill. The fact you can create images, videos and audios that mimic reality only means more surveillance on the working class because digital-signals can be faked absolutely. You can’t eat what AI creates–it is completely immaterial, but it is being used to commit genocide. I’m sure that warms the cockles of the hearts in all of us.

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