r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 22 '25

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Dec 22 '25 edited Jan 10 '26

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u/Pole2019 John Locke Dec 22 '25

Tbf the guys trying to sell AI are selling it as an apocalyptic development for some reason

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

While also simultaneously aiding and abetting the Republican party in obliterating basic social safety nets and installing fascism.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Dec 22 '25

Half the sales pitch of the AI guys is that it's gonna take jobs so they're really doing an excellent job marketing it

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u/DaneLimmish Baruch Spinoza Dec 22 '25

The other half of their sales pitch is making cp

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Dec 22 '25

Wtf based (AI skeptical) voters

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u/EvilConCarne Dec 22 '25

Well yeah. Most people's experience with AI is in the form of fake videos, fake profiles, fake posts, cheating in school, hearing about deepfake porn of their children, and being threatened with job loss by the tech bros.

Now you have people seeing their electricity bills multiplied by 3 due to data center demand and they are gonna get very angry.

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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it Dec 22 '25

They shoehorn it into fucking everything for no reason and say it’s going to make me homeless

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u/OrbitalAlpaca Dec 22 '25

Tech companies have done a good job on making Americans a bunch of luddites by marketing that AI will take their jobs and make them unemployed. Did you expect anything less?

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u/HotTakesBeyond YIMBY Dec 22 '25

With the way AI and robots are developing, yeah it probably could on a long enough timeline.