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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound
[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]
Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]
Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]
Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.
[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]
Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.
You’re really comparing the use of AI to actual slavery?
That’s the read you take from the comic? I read it as, “here’s this entrenched system that is clearly harmful but was also overcome”. The presentation is essentially a reductio ad absurdum, not a comparison.
Yes, when the datacenters use up the resources, and take jobs away from people? We are trading the things people need to live, for slop. Those with the resources will get more and those without the resources will get less, and the divide will widen.