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They aren't? The whole point of AI is to use technology to rationalize severing the social contract at a basic level in order to normalize hurting people for being out of the loop. Techies in their naive smugness refused a leftist analysis of their industry, failed to unionize and now the rest of us are paying the price.
Whether it is using AI/Azure to aid in the Palestinian genocide with Microsoft, using AI and tech to mass manipulate people for profit and rightwing violent ideology such as all the major corporate social media companies, using AI to mass deny life saving healthcare and murder people with United Healthcare, preying upon tech illiterate people with the ads industry or any number of things, trust us, we aren't thankful for techies.
What y'all are doing is triage because your ignorance and willful naivety blinded you, to say "you are helping" is smugly missing the context.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This isn't about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.
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Perhaps I'm too dumb to understand it, but I don't see how your comment is relevant to the article.
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and data collection around them to violent and dysfunctional ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers about... as if they were simply indecipherable expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren't as smart as techies that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
For techies this article is the equivalent of a humorous XKCD about losing time on the weekends helping normies, and honestly that kind of vibe is fucking insufferable at this late date. Wake up you fools, you are hurting people. Unionize NOW or you continue to be complicit in this no matter what you lament about in your words or how many family members you help in your off time set up their device.