[oulipo2]

AI society is going to be:

- you, chained on your sofa, watching ads "tailored-made by AI for you"

- weaponized robots roaming the streets to ensure everyone is "at work" and not "at leisure activities"

- "no need to vote", of course, because "AI already knows what's good for you"...

[cyanydeez]

Nah, the weaponized robots don't need to ensure you're working. They need to ensure you're either watching advertisements or working!

Obviously, if you're a child you can't work, so you need to be advertising fodder.

[mindcrime]

> - you, chained on your sofa, watching ads "tailored-made by AI for you"

Blipverts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert

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[sdevonoes]

Why don’t we go out in the streets and protest? Like the french did some centuries ago. If only we stop using instagram, youtube, if we stop searching in google, if we ditch claude, openai, for a couple of days… the billionaries will notice it and get hurt. That would be like a warning from our side

[fragmede]

Last century? The French did that just last month!

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/08/t...

[palmotea]

> Why don’t we go out in the streets and protest?

We'll then they'll just send the kill-bots to deal with the problem (you).

Real reason: political polarization and social media has fragmented society, isolated people, and instilled a deep sense of cynicism to sap the motivation of people to take political action that would actually help themselves against the billionaires. Classic divide and conquer.

For instance: what to start a tech union? You're gonna fail because on the one hand you've got people who really want to focus on stuff like trans issues and Israel/Palestine, and then on the other you have a lot of people who want to have nothing to do with the first group. The result: no coordinated worker response to issues like offshoring and AI, and the billionaires and CEOs get to run wild.

[tim333]

Because the above comment is hyperbole.

[azangru]

> weaponized robots roaming the streets to ensure everyone is "at work" and not "at leisure activities"

But I thought everyone was going to lose their jobs...

[wongarsu]

No, you see, if you lose your job you are poor. And in America, the poor don't deserve leisure. And any work they do has to be as punishing as possible, no matter how little effect that cruelty has on the bottom line

If there's no work to do, we can always invent more work. We just have to figure out who pays for it. Enjoying life is for those "communist" Europeans /s