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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.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • Monte_Crisco@thelemmy.club
    1111·
    12 days ago

    Replace the buzzword “AI” with “computing advancement” or (more broadly) “technological advancement.”

    I think that makes it easier to see how the analogies in the comic strip are meaningless to the basic pattern that our technology has been advancing and will continue advancing, unless or until societal collapse (and maybe not even then if, by then, technology has reached the point where it can start creating its own advancements).

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      12 days ago

      Isn’t it’s silly how liberal people fall into a conservative trap here? We should be able to figure out AI. That’s what being a liberal is all about - believing that we can steer advancement to benefit of all.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        12 days ago

        Technically being a liberal means believing that government shouldn’t interfere in the free market. Unfortunately, the terms have been muddied a lot in the US.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        11 days ago

        But conservatives love AI.

        Does that mean… that conservatives are the real wokelords?? 😱

        You guys, I think this Elon Musk character’s got some pretty clever ideas. We should be terraforming Mars before we fix the Earth.

    • Ohi@lemmy.world
      69·
      12 days ago

      “We already have horses, we don’t need cars” … this is how THEY sound.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        11 days ago

        Your society is crumbling in no small part because cars have pushed people too far away from each other and now they are lonely. Henry Ford is kind of a dick.