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“AI” is a tool to disenfranchise labor.

That’s the job. If “AI” is actually more expensive than paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages.

In December 2024 Ali Alkhatib wrote: “I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.”

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[–] riskable@programming.dev -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't that the point of all innovation though? To reduce labor or QOL improvements.

This is like saying the automobile was invented to put ferriers out of business. Because... Yeah. Sort of.

The AI paradox: It is simultaneously going to destroy the market for human labor because it's just that good while also being completely useless, only good for generating "slop".

If both of these are true, then the only human labor AI is going to replace is that which generates slop. Because... Yeah. Humans do generate a lot of slop without AI. Now slop can be generated and deployed faster than ever before!

Are you a generator of slop, such as:

  • Marketing emails (spam)
  • Clickbait (all forms)
  • Scams
  • Cold calls
  • Incredibly low-effort videos

Your job may be in jeopardy!

[–] HetareKing@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

It's funny you should mention automobiles, because it's actually a pretty good analogue. Sure, the car itself was probably not invented with some kind of political goal in mind, but the complete redesign of many cities to be car-centric, because "cars are the future!", making people dependent on cars and destroying neighbourhoods to build highways along the way, was (and continues to be) very much a political project.

As for the "paradox", whether or not AI is actually capable at replacing jobs is not that important. What matters is whether or not the pretense that it can (and therefore the pretense that workers don't have any leverage), can be kept up for long enough that the networks workers use to consolidate their leverage, like unions, fall apart. As an example of a similar strategy, see Elon Musk promoting the Hyperloop to prevent the construction of high speed rail.