US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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Notice how they think it’s extreme to fight against something threatening the lives of hard working Americans, instead of protecting us repugs are siding with elitiests
Their rank and file were right, they just got the side wrong..
I see that the betrayers are already getting that loaded language ready to use as an excuse to betray more Americans.
‘Anti-tech extremism’?!
You mean not everyone is fine with just handing the keys to the fiends that comprise the tech-broligarchy?
The extremists are the ones fighting back, not the ones systematically eroding our way of life. Get back to work, worm
People not liking children having AI girlfriends and boyfriends, being tracked by AI, police departments using AI to do their jobs (poorly), and not wanting a data center bigger than manhattan in their backyard, doesn’t make them extremist.
The only people that would call that extremist, are the ones that stand to profit from doing all these things. And none of them are good for society or the planet.
There you go, if you threaten their bottom line and refuse to be subjugated by the tech billionaires you will be branded an extremist and you will be hunted down.
They mean normies protesting with niche radical fringe political ideas like “drinkable water” and “being able to afford electricity”. And objecting to your home and property being bulldozed to build out ai data center infrastructure. Ga already doing it. Maryland has put a stop to it for now.
It’s not even anti-tech though. It’s anti ‘this specific direction of tech’. I have no problem with developments in FOSS. If Microslop decided to drop this AI copilot shit and make an OS as nice and unintrusive as Win7 again, people wouldn’t hate on them nearly as much. Framework is laying a foundation for making laptops is customizable as desktops have always been. As locked down as Apple products are, their Apple Silicon is genuinely very impressive hardware, as is the Macbook Neo.
People like tech when it’s a clear step up from things we’ve had before. The way things are going now just seems to make everything worse, while the people up top insist it’s making things better.
Can’t wait for this to be bundled in with antifa as a boogeyman of the right – anything that is a threat to the consolidation of capital will be given the same treatment.
when you start seeing shit like this, you know you’re winning
What’s extremism is the future being thrust on all of us.
Nobody can define what “winning the AI race” looks like. But have decided it’s worth mass unemployment?
anti ‘tech-extremism’ sure.
anti-tech extremism, not really.
People aren’t against tech as such, they are against it displacing the masses and only benefitting the richest of the rich.
If it benefitted everyone, if it meant everyone needed to do less work but still had a job and pay, a very limited few would be against.
Exceptionally important distinction.
Lol?
They should think how to protect people, not big corporations from people.
US is really going on fast track to Cyberpunk 2077 reality.
“Anti tech” give me a break. Anti blatant wealth extraction.
Fuck this biased headline. Not wanting AI to be used to monitor, track, arrest, and kill citizens isn’t “extremism”.
The tech isn’t necessarily the issue. The weaponization by billionaire sociopaths of said tech is.
So we’re just giving up on any pretense of a free market driven by wants and needs, and a government representating the People? Silicon Valley dictates our lives now, with the backing of government force?
Yeah well when the promise was a brighter future for all we were on board. When it became a brighter future for some we weren’t.
They really outed themselves when they ruled it was ok for AI companies to steal written IP to train models and then turned around and shit on Anna’s Archive for the Spotify thing. If it benefits companies and their leadership, it’s ok. If it benefits regular people, it’s not ok.
What this headline *actually* tells me is there’s a growing fear at the top that the “social contract” is about to break down. If that happens then there simply aren’t enough authorities to keep everyone in check, so they’ll need to spin it as “extremism” to get neighbors to spy on neighbors.
> AI Hatred grows
*insert Donald Glover ‘Good.’ gif here*
“Anti-tech extremism” and it’s just people who don’t want data centers drinking their water supply dry while skyrocketing their energy bills
So now people who want to keep their jobs are “extremists”? Yeah, I think the billionaire class are headed for a day of reckoning that could be very, very ugly.
Me, personally, I can’t wait to see the upcoming new industry of people making tech to absolutely fuck up robots or systems that took people’s jobs and left them with no other options. Big box store wants to fire 100 people just so they can have two robots move around the store to assist with self checkout? Those robots are going to be fucked with. It’s going to cost a lot more to the company when they’re constantly closing stores because their robots are incapacitated every other day
Anti-human extremists targeting humans that are worried about human life quality.
It’s almost like The King and his men left the castle gates, and burned down all the little shops/farms and replaced them with ones inside the castle. Can’t imagine why the peasants would revolt on the king.
Funny how we never hear about anti-working class extremism.
I am just going to point out that the Unabomber did warn us all about this.
“Anti-tech extremism”? Wait until they learn about Amish people. It is insane that computers and technology have the right to exist but people don’t.
US Law Enforcement is controlled by the rich pedophiles billionaires who own this tech. Want proof? Look at how they have handled the Epstein shit. America is cooked
The Bell Riots are coming
Ah yes soon I’ll be put on my SECOND terrorist watchlist. First one is “thinking trans people shouldn’t be terrorized by the government.”
its absolutely wild to me, contextualizing it as ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’. I think most everyone would be alright with “AI taking their jobs” if:
1. LLMs hadn’t been trained off content in the public domain, with the outputs being privatized and made for-profit
2. There was some sort of social safety net, guaranteeing a degree of preservation of economic stability once “all the jobs go away”.
Why would the general public _ever_ be okay with something that threatens their way of life, with no alternative in place to speak of? Not to mention the fact that its all a huge moonshot to begin with??
They are bragging about putting young adults out of work …
I don’t know if people have simply never picked up a history book, but no society (ever) has survived after disenfranchising young adults.
The greater % of people 18-30 that are unemployed, the greater % that society goes to hell in a hand basket.
Well maybe if theybstopped building datacenters in communities that overwhelmingly don’t want them, with no plan for providing their own power and water….
I hate the companies and tech bros forcing governments to bend to their will. I hate the politicians who are in bed with them. I hate the investor class that doesn’t care that our country is going down the toilet. Although I don’t hate AI per se, I have no personal interest in it, though I could see the value in some applications. But this latter is not worth the former.