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I am ethically and morally opposed to gen AI as a concept. As far as the breaking point, let me explain. I've been a machinist for ~18 years. It's been really bad for the last 9 years and I've more or less had to live off of savings from the good years (those savings are basically gone).

I've just recently gotten legitimate job offers for ~$125 an hour remote because I own a CNC. The catch is that I have to record all of the CAM programming and machine time in order to train an AI to replace potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This fucking sucks. I'd love to sit on my ass forever at 43, but I absolutely fucking hate the potential that I could bring that would crush the working class and elevate the owning class.

I wish it wasn't this hard, because I really do believe in socialism and have labored hard for a long time to make it happen - but there's a chance I can put everything I have into true anarchism cause and make a legitimate difference.

Please help.

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[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Just going to point out that putting their expertise on youtube is pretty much the same end route. Except now google can just train on it from there.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

A YouTube video of someone cutting chips on a CNC does absolutely nothing for training. They can't just watch the mill cut without precise measurements. What they need is what he knows about machining. They're interested in him taking in a spec, building it in CAD, generating a program from it, why he chooses what he chooses, speeds, angles, what's possible, what's not possible. None of this is required for his own YouTube video. Clean up the mill, get the lights good, and just let people watch it fly.

He's not putting his expertise into Youtube, he's just showing you the piece being made, jump cuts around working with the model. Hell, showing failures. There's a damned strong following for speechless videos of machinists/engineers doing work.

The real upside: say he's making phone cases, keychains, parts; people will go to his site and buy that shit. He doesn't have to give the baby away with the bathwater.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Watching someone is very different from learning, trying it myself ,failing and knowing why something works, or didn't work.

Someone watching lots of porn doesn't automatically mean he is good in bed.