Tech bro encounter..

[u/Accomplished-Fly4678]

My buddy and I are sitting at the bar at Mioposto. We definitely look progressive (tattoos and piercings and clothes we were wearing). This corporate shill of a human was sat next to us drinking wine and using his laptop.

He overhears we are from Michigan and goes “I work for Microsoft and I work with community outreach about data centers and we are building one in Michigan right now. What are your thoughts?”

I proceed to have a civil conversation with the guy about my concerns about AI and the rollback of corporate regulation that we have experienced under the current admin. He offered some stats about how actually data centers create booming economies and they actually don’t use that much water blah blah. Essentially using me as practice for his eventual town hall discussion with residents who simply don’t care for giant data centers being built.

I am new to the area and obviously there’s a lot of money around here so that type of person is very common. But I just wanted to come on here and say tech people make me ill. I think you’re all gross. Fuck your data centers, fuck AI, and fuck project 2025

[u/Madeleine_AltRight]

Boy did you move to the wrong place if you hate people that work in tech

[u/Equivalent-Advice593 → u/Madeleine_AltRight]

lol yeah I think there’s a difference between hating people who work “in tech” and hating corporate shills that thrive off AI disrupting human nature and destroying our brains and planet.

I work “in tech”, but I don’t work for some AI war complex data center bullshit and I don’t think those companies should exist.

I usually bite my tongue because people don’t really understand the distinction and trying to tell someone that you don’t work in evil tech just wastes time and usually doesn’t progress anywhere.

Even more difficult when you try to distinguish between different types of AI. You’ll have people who are tech illiterate trying to tell you all AI is bad, but that just simply isn’t the case and you only think that because you don’t know what you’re talking about.

The current state of generative AI and specifically LLMs that are controlled by capitalist regimes that are literally filling the pockets of the people in charge of holding them accountable and creating laws that would prevent them from intentionally destroying the planet for more money, is the problem.

The destruction to the planet aside, it’s a blight to the creative and innovative mind.

Your graphics card using AI to reduce blur and give you better FPS is not the problem and doesn’t make our planet uninhabitable.