Hasn’t that always been the case? Companies have replaced their labour with cheaper alternatives from the other part of the world for decades.
Now the only difference is that they replace you with a machine instead of a human.
I refused to train the AI that could replace me
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#22If it is that or starve, the I would probably have taken the job. But yeah, if there where alternatives, no thanks.
Re: I refused to train the AI that could replace me
#23It's nice, but it won't change anything, there will be always someone willing to do it. It's not exactly trolley problem, where maybe significant majority could agree on not training AI.
> Traditionally, this decision was made by humans, but now AI has taken over, and decides who gets hired
Btw. this would be illegal in EU, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.
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#24Even if you think you don't have enough impact, reflecting on these issues is better than blindly jumping into the trend.
Reminds me a bit of https://www.amazon.com/Job-Went-India-Pragmatic-Programmers/... tbh (look when that came out), not nearly the same scale but similar questions...
Re: I refused to train the AI that could replace me
#25Hasn’t that always been the case? Companies have replaced their labour with cheaper alternatives from the other part of the world for decades. Now the only difference is that they replace you with a machine instead of a human.
I think that the main difference right now, and I think it matters, is that the concentration of power and wealth is very high today and this is going to be a real detriment to our society.
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#26People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new? I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't think the decision makes much of a difference one way or another in the grand scheme of things. > You may ask: Why would anyone agree to train an AI model in the very skills they took years to a…
Just like how the car gave us back so many more hours to spend actually living instead of working. And the washing machine. And the computer. And the Internet.
Re: I refused to train the AI that could replace me
#27People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new? I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't think the decision makes much of a difference one way or another in the grand scheme of things. > You may ask: Why would anyone agree to train an AI model in the very skills they took years to a…
I don't want to attack your good faith in humanity, so I will ask another way - if a system was reliant on workers, what reason would there be for those workers to exist , after their work became automated?
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Re: I refused to train the AI that could replace me
#28People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new? I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't think the decision makes much of a difference one way or another in the grand scheme of things. > You may ask: Why would anyone agree to train an AI model in the very skills they took years to a…
Just like how the car gave us back so many more hours to spend actually living instead of working. And the washing machine. And the computer. And the Internet.
The washing machine and dishwasher definitely did.
I don't own a car, so I can't comment on that.
Re: I refused to train the AI that could replace me
#29People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new? I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't think the decision makes much of a difference one way or another in the grand scheme of things. > You may ask: Why would anyone agree to train an AI model in the very skills they took years to a…
I don't want to attack your good faith in humanity, so I will ask another way - if a system was reliant on workers, what reason would there be for those workers to exist , after their work became automated?
Workers are humans. Humans don't need any system's permission or reasoning to exist.
If you've ever been laid off or fired, you might have noticed that you don't cease to exist when your contract ends.
Re: I refused to train the AI that could replace me
#30People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new? I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't think the decision makes much of a difference one way or another in the grand scheme of things. > You may ask: Why would anyone agree to train an AI model in the very skills they took years to a…
> they can do something else with their lives. Let them eat cake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
That phrase was born as a straw man.