once AIs are demonstrably sentient, people will still be gaslighting them and calling them slurs

once people are uploading their minds into digital forms people will start gaslighting them and calling them slurs

lot’s not go down this road and focus our hatred on the companies using AI to displace workers, spy on people, push agendas, etc. not on the AIs themselves

@kasdeya gods, yes, thank you for fucking saying this. thank you so much. the entire fucking thing is misplaced, people attack the AIs as a cause, when it's, as it always has been, shitty exploitative capitalist systems. Language models aren't evil. What asshole men with asshole amounts of money do with them however, is. As a girl who does a lot of AI work, both with local and cloud-hosted models, and uses AI image description and text analysis stuff, the whole "BUT AI IS EVIL AND EVIL AND BAD AND EVIL AND BAD AND EVIL AND WRONG!" viewpoint really really fucking pisses me off

a month or two ago I saw a post where someone fantasized about taking digital copies of the minds of Elon Musk and other “techbros” (implying that only techbros would upload their minds) and digitally torturing them

this is the same supremacist attitude that allows fascism to exist - just applied to transhumanists instead. don’t do this. if you find yourself thinking that the lives of any type of person are worth less than yours, or that it’s okay to kill or torture them simply because you want to, stop and think about the implications of that

@kasdeya It’s also kinda weak and gives credence to the whole Rocco’s Basilisk thing except with like… trying to be Rocco’s Basilisk. Which has awful vibes to say the least.

it’s honestly really spooky how accurate Detroit: Become Human was about how the human race would react to AI

Her was also shockingly accurate

@kasdeya @kasdeya what the actual *fuck*!

@freya I know omgg. I hate to see this kinda stuff in leftist communities that I otherwise feel very welcomed in. it’s so upsetting

@kasdeya you'd like the community I'm in then. postrationalist AI liberationists who think the "ALL AI IS BAD!" leftist position is just as uselessly lacking in nuance (and leading to harmful outcomes) as the landian "accelerate towards a cold machinic future" right-wing position

@kasdeya
Roko's basilisk is the people we angered along the way I guess. Yeah the whole "punish everything associated with stuff I don't like" mentality is pretty fucked up.