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.
You’re not good faith.
No one suggested shunning anyone who has ever used AI.
We are talking about training an AI for work. I don’t witch hunt everyone who has typed a google search. You are making a false equivalence. You can absolutely survive without taking an AI job, period.
Okay, but we’re not talking about a proper “AI job” either, like making 200k/yr at Anthropic. OP has offers to do presumably useful work, but an AI company has managed to insert itself into the process. That feels solidly grey-area to me.
Whether that is condemnable depends on OP’s economic situation, whether there’s alternatives, what their finances look like. I also don’t blame AI click workers in Nigeria after all.
Training AI is a proper AI job. They only hire you to make their data sets legal. You are replaced and homeless as soon as they feel they got what they need from you period. Without you they can’t actually do their work anymore since copyrighted work isn’t supposed to be used to train without permission anymore (you can’t claim the product is your “companies”).
The worker is the wall between these people. Also OP isn’t under duress. I’ve been homeless for years, me and everyone else, you’ll survive. Let me know when they arrest you for not using AI then maybe I’ll care a little tiny bit about your stupid sob story side note.