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by atomic128 123 days ago
A recent, less ambiguous warning from insiders who are seeing the same thing:

  Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial
  intelligence models, a handful of industry insiders are
  calling for those opposed to the current state of affairs
  to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the
  technology.

  "Hinton has clearly stated the danger but we can see he is
  correct and the situation is escalating in a way the
  public is not generally aware of," our source said, noting
  that the group has grown concerned because "we see what
  our customers are building."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...

And a less charitable, less informed, less accurate take from a bozo at Forbes:

  The Luddites are back, wrecking technology in a quixotic
  effort to stop progress. This time, though, it’s not angry   
  textile workers destroying mechanized looms, but a shadowy
  group of technologists who want to stop the progress of
  artificial intelligence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2026/01/21/poison-fo...
1 comments
KaiserPro 123 days ago
> The Luddites are back, wrecking technology in a quixotic effort to stop progress.

The luddites got us the weekend and workers rights, eventually.

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landl0rd 123 days ago
No, they did not; that was organized labor. The luddites were never comparably organized and preferred less-productive tactics, and their recalcitrance cost them much of their popular support.
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KaiserPro 123 days ago
> that was organized labor.

The luddites were organised, thats why the government mobilised 12k troops to systematically put them down.

The difference between them and the peterloo lot was that the luddites were entirely working class.

Union activities were outlawed in 1800 by the combination act. The very act of the luddites joining together was illegal. lots of our primary sources are from newspapers/letters/parliament who are all from the industrial classes.

> preferred less-productive tactics

In the USA they had actual battles with armies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

Any kind of union activities at the time of the luddites was illegal, lots of people were transported or executed for being suspected luddites.

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