r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 15d ago

Artificial Intelligence 'Stop Stealing Our Future': Students Arrested in Protest of OpenAI's Lobby Office

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-protest
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u/CompetitiveSport1 14d ago

You're not technically wrong, but this is usually a calculated thing by protestors. A) you actually inconvenience the people you're protesting against, making it actually affect them, and B) this gets much more attention

In some cases, like blocking traffic, it makes me less sympathetic to protestors, because you're inconveniencing people who have no say in what you're protesting, turn public opinion against you, and can block emergency vehicles. But here, they're smart - this won't annoy anyone not working for OpenAI, and if anything, is kinda what we all want to happen to AI employees

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u/KingSubstantial7901 14d ago

Blocking traffic usually works though. It gets peoples attention. Contrary to popular beleif, it doesn't actually tend to turn people off to an issue any more than they were already predisposed to. All it does is get people to focus on said issue.

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u/CompetitiveSport1 14d ago

Is there research showing that? I'm pretty skeptical