It’s humans ruining things for other humans. AI is just a tool that makes it easier and cheaper

That’s the main point, though: the tire fire of humanity is bad enough without some sick fucks adding vast quantities of accelerant in order to maximize profits.

Since all the lawsuits and laws in the world cannot stop generative AI at this point

Clearly that’s not true. They’ll keep it up for as long as it’s at all positive to extract profits from it, but not past that. Handled right, this class action could make the entire concept poisonous from a profiteering perspective for years, maybe even decades.

we might as well fix the underlying problems that enable this bullshit.

Of COURSE! Why didn’t anyone think to turn flick off the switches marked “unscrupulous profiteering” and “regulatory capture”?!

We’ll have this done by tomorrow, Monday at the latest! 🙄

Making big AI companies go away isn’t going to help with these problems.

The cancer might be the underlying cause but the tumor still kills you if you don’t do anything about it.

the development of AI certainly won’t stop.

Again, it WILL if all profitability is removed.

It will just move to countries with fewer scruples and weaker ethics

Than silicon valley? Than the US government when ultra-rich white men want something?

No such country exists.

The biggest problem is (mostly unregulated) capitalism

Finally right about something.

Fix that, and suddenly AI “taking away jobs” ceases to be a problem.

“Discover the cure for cancer and suddenly the tumord in your brain, lungs, liver, and kidneys won’t be a problem anymore!” 🤦

Hopefully, AI will force the world to move toward the Star Trek future

Wtf have you been drinking??

AI industry, fucking around: Woo! This is awesome! No consequences ever! Just endless profits!

AII, finding out: this fucking sucks! So unfair!

The Trump-Putin meeting, scheduled for Friday in Alaska, is seen as a potential breakthrough

By the dumbest of their own sycophants and absolutely nobody else.

The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?

That’s who you think was the last good Republican?

…an elf?

And his spiritual daughter is the Prime Minister

In two words: it’s complicated.

In many more words, courtesy of Wikipedia:

China has been Israel’s third largest trading partner globally and its largest trading partner in East Asia. Bilateral trade volume increased from $50 million in 1992 to over $10 billion in 2013 Israel has traded significantly with China in technology and arms. Some commentators note similarities between the culture and values of the two nations. Following the October 7 attacks, commentators generally note a worsening in relations between the two countries. In the United Nations, China has long voted in support of the State of Palestine and against Israel.

a move that would draw fierce opposition internationally and within Israel

The most powerful countries in the world are all either total simps for the fascist apartheid regime or publicly pretending that it doesn’t exist while supplying it with weapons and ammunition.

I bet Italian fascists do.

They have for decades.

It’s starting to be covered in the media now not because it started recently, but because the Overton Window only recently shifted enough that journalists can comment on it without committing career suicide.

I read that as ASMR at first. It amused me 😁

Fuck I hope not! 😬

Land of the fee and the home of the slave.

Yeah, the Texas electric grid is as reliable as a cardboard shed in a hurricane.

Speaking of hurricanes, “historically low occurrence of natural disasters” is also the exact opposite of reality and rapidly getting WORSE.

The real reason is of course corrupt politicians in charge of a kakistocratic government that’ll let them get away with anything up to and including mass murder while throwing money at them.

I don’t get why this is hard for you to understand

I understand perfectly fine, I’m just pointing out the fact that you’re wrong when conflating the means of PRODUCTION with the methods of wealth accumulation in a company that actually produces nonfinancial goods and services.

to defend the right of billionaires owning an obscene amount of wealth.

I would never do any such thing. Billionaires shouldn’t exist and in fact neither should the stock market.

So THAT’S where you want the goal posts now?

Equity isn’t the means of production. The means of production are what produce the products and services, not what produces the capital. What you’re talking is the means of profiting.

If you were talking about a financial company where wealth for the sake of wealth IS the only product, you’d be right, but Amazon isn’t that.

Yup! You’re remembering that right. Also, the frontman Hotblack Desiato was temporarily dead as part of a tax avoidance scheme 😄

he’s not liquid

Who gives a fuck? Wealth is wealth and his equity is his security for the low to zero interest loans from where all his spending money comes.

None of the “richest Americans” have near the amount of wealth they appear to have

Again, yes they do. Illiquid wealth is still wealth and is the basis of rich people getting to spend as much as they want with little to no risk compared to people who DON’T have a dragon’s hoard in stock for the above infinite money exploit to work.

This is what people mean when they say workers should own the means of production tho

Nah, when people say that workers should own the means of production, they’re talking about ACTUAL ownership, not bonuses from the owner.

It’s probably a tie.