The irony is thick as peanut butter this morning.
Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
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Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#82If you work for meta you shouldn't have a problem with invading the privacy of others. Of course this is not ok, but you should really quit your job if you have ethical or moral problems with that.
> you should really quit your job Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so. To blame employees for the capital behavior is absurd and solves nothing. Put the high up decision makers in prison. Punish the real criminals and we will get back our privacy and our rights.
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Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#83If you work for meta you shouldn't have a problem with invading the privacy of others. Of course this is not ok, but you should really quit your job if you have ethical or moral problems with that.
There isn't exactly a surplus of jobs today. While some may have this option, many do not.
But I was only following orders!
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#84It is in a way some kind of modern day slavery. Of course they can always decide to quit, but what if the next company uses the same sniffing strategy? On youtube you can see video clips of indians wearing various glasses to monitor their own manual work procedures. AI has truly become our new overlord, controlled by a few huge companies.
lol what. you are getting paying it is not slavery
Because slaves were not getting paid?
Not only were they getting paid, slavery in the Roman Empire involved a bidirectional responsibility. In times of economic hardship and downturn, the owner was required to look after the slave. No kicking to the curb allowed.
Slaves were able to buy themselves out and the list of former slaves who became magnates and even politically influential at the highest level was indeed long and packed with names.
Being a slave was not considered dishonorable or lowly and the power dynamic was not based on notions of inherent ethnic based superiority. Not that the Romans weren’t plenty racist — they were. They also knew what a category error is and were not wont to induce it in themselves. Perhaps they had standards where intellectual rigor is concerned.
The ugly American version of slavery really did a number on people’s understanding of the institution. When we look at the current boardroom and C-suite “elites” and how they were often literally handed their business by the established power structures (Google and the CIA VC fund; DARPA and “lifelog” into Facebook etc), you can’t help but get the feeling that in our wage slavery society social mobility options are worse than Roman era slaves could avail themselves of.
Keen study of history is the only thing that can halt the slide of citizenry into universal and absolute ignorance. Given that Joe Schmoe no longer reads anything longer than a reel caption and even Ignatius Intellectual often maxes out at a blog post, I’d say the slide is well and truly lubed up.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#85Oddly enough was watching Colossus: The Forbin Project . One of those mid 70s scifi flicks. At some point, their AI demanded that its creator be under 24/7 audio-visiual surveillance (including bathroom time, yes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project p.s. was just reading the wiki plot summary and lol'ing at this bit: " Colossus has the responsible programmers summarily executed outside their w…
THAT IS TOO MUCH VERMOUTH
lol, yes :)
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
80 characters limit in the title.
Yeah, but usually folks tweak to paraphrase, instead of lopping off. I'd have gone with "Meta employees up in arms over mandatory program to train AI on their keystrokes".
"Sticks nix hick pix"
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#87I’m getting vertigo from the level of hypocrisy.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#88Small-scale imperial boomerang. You thought that you're building a privacy-destroying machine and this machine will never destroy _your_ privacy? At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you'…
> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? Is there a reason you didn't go with > No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.
> Is there a reason you didn't go with
No and you are being intentionally obtuse for some reason.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Several reports say even a mid-ranked engineer at Meta can earn $200k in salary and another $100k in stock and bonus, every year. And that's not some rare, mega-senior E8 architect either. Is there any point where a person stops being working class? Can I be chauffeur-driven to the opera in my gold-plated Lamborghini and still call myself working class?
If you work to earn a living, you're working class. If you use capital to pay your bills, you're a capitalist. So I'd say someone with that kind of salary and stocks is probably halfway to not-working-class. If you already have 1MM in stocks then you're not working class anymore, you don't need to work at that point.
> If you work to earn a living, you're working class
They are using a divide an conquer strategy. By splitting the working class they want to weak our ability to resist capital.
There is no logic to their argument just lies to fulfill their goal.
Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you should really quit your job Stop blaming the working class. We need jobs to pay our bills. Regulate capital, force them to follow the law, force them to be ethical, and use all the force of the state for doing so. To blame employees for the capital behavior is absurd and solves nothing. Put the high up decision makers in prison. Punish the real criminals and we will get back our privacy and our rights.
Stop using bills as an excuse to be on the wrong side of history. Were the nazi soldiers innocent for gassing jews? Or were they also just "following the law"? Being ethical is hard, but it's not an excuse. Yes, I judge people that work for FAANG, I judge colleagues for extensively rely on LLMs, and Big Corps for that matter. > Regulate capital How? Oh, right, by not using these products or working for the mentioned…
> It's so easy to shift blame on other's and mark it as "not my problem lol"
I don't say that it is "not my problem". It is. That is why Facebook is guilty and high level decision makers should be held accountable by the law.
We need to make it happen. Until CEOs and the like are in prison we are failing society.