Knowledge based fields were historically a “safe space” for queer and disabled people. If you are just super fucking smart and could be a wizard in a programming language, or were a genius physicist, you could get to the point where you were too valuable to fire for being trans or disabled. I may be trans and an unperson in the place I live, but I can do calculus, and there’s no way they can take that away from me.
There’s an attack on knowledge itself going on right now. A desire by the rich to control information. They want to force us into an unreality where skill and knowledge are meaningless. This hurts people who are socially marginalized, because it takes away one of our few paths for economic survival.
It goes with the attacks on DEI. What they want is a tool that can replace the need for talent, so that they can select who gets to have jobs. They want all jobs to be Graeber’s “bullshit jobs” so that skill is meaningless and they can allot them out to the people they think “deserve” them.
Roughly 50% of transgender and/or non-binary people are software developers and roughly 50% are furry artists, so it makes sense we would be more wary of AI.
I use arch, btw.
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Trans nonby software dev who dated a furry artist, my disdain for AI knows no limits.
I use Nobara, btw. (Is Arch good I’ve never looked into it)
It can be a tiny bit involved to install but if you know your way around Linux already it’s perfectly doable. The arch wiki is a great reference for MANY things and it has a dedicated page with installation instructions.
I like that it’s lightweight because it comes with the bare minimum for a working Linux install and everything on top of that must be explicitly installed by you. I also love pacman (the package manager). It’s never borked anything for me and I’ve yet to be dropped into a dependency hell in 6+ years of using it.
Wait, if I’m not a software developer, then I must be a furry artist 🫣 The things I learn about myself on the internet… xd
Well, some are both software developers and furry artists, which I guess frees you up to be some other, hidden, third thing. Which I’m going to guess is either bass guitar player or train driver?
driving trains sounds interesting, I pick that :D
Man between this and the “AI vegan” bullshit article, they really want to get ahead on crushing any thought that AI is bad. At least by easily manipulated groups.
Opposed people, or today who know what it’s like to be oppressed, are more likely to recognize oppression.
AI is going to fuck us all at this rate. It’s already begun. People are losing their jobs.
Losing jobs is just the tip of the iceberg, individualized, friendly mass manipulation is where the shit hits the fan in a whole new way
Trans lady here, appalled by AI! A lot of the middle management I work with are eager for it, and since I work in M365 administration, my boss keeps compelling me to flip the CoPilot switch to “on” for people.
I hate it.
What kinda bullshit narrative is this?
One that divides people in lower tax brackets
Smart bunch it would seem.
Fuck AI
That’s because they’re all on lemmy
That’s fair, because AI is biased against them.
Possibly… However, AI will be use to discriminate them as America ramps up their concentration camps for the undesirables.
Oppressed people don’t like the walled garden information tools made and profited from by the people using them as a scapegoat distraction for their fleecing of society?
I wonder if the correlation is that these groups tend to be more informed.
No, it’s that AI has a white male bias.
Which the minority groups are more informed about…
Which is irrelevant
Disabled, vehemently anti-AI enby here. The only thing I’m good at professionally is being a great big brain, so taking knowledge work away from me makes me angry.
Same way the other way around. Remember when grok went full mechahitler?
Actual computer scientists should also be included with those groups.
LGBTC
Because some are artisans and see that their work is being pillaged for AI “training”.
