[Dlanv]

The public hates ai but also uses ai in mass quantities.

Capitalism abides by your dollars not your voice.

So people can decry ai all they want but if they keep using it, it won't go away.

Even then it's probable that AI is a big enough productivity boost for certain industries that even if no consumers used AI, businesses would still prop AI up enough for it to live on.

[akomtu]

The public is forced to use AI at work and outside of work because the corpos are determined in inserting their AI everywhere. Then the people come back home and see that their energy bills have doubled because of AI datacenters. Of course people hate AI.

[FabCH]

Capitalism abides by dollars only so long as force is not in play. When the Molotov cocktails start flying, dollars lose their grip.

Simone Weil had good theoretical and practical observations on force vs economy 100 years ago.

[hcurtiss]

Nah, dollars buy war machines. And for the first time in human history, we are on the precipice of projecting substantial ground force without the need for humans.

[diordiderot]

Lol, sure. until the first "revolutionary" takes one in the chest.

Americans are too comfortable. Leftist rhetoric is virtue signaling and costless.

[bigyabai]

Arguably, they don't take one in the chest. Luigi Mangione lives in notoriety what he did; most people can't even name the CEO he killed, let alone frame them as a martyr.

I disagree with theories of continual revolution, but it's pretty clear that class warfare still has valuable asymmetric qualities.

[mindslight]

Rightist rhetoric is vice signalling, costly, and destructive. I'll choose the virtue signalling.