The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI’s invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they’re trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/
This is what always gets me.
US dems will throw their leaders under the bus in a split second, or fry them over the slightest past scandal.
Even those that won’t will criticize them over specific issues.
Most Republicans, no matter what, cannot blame Trump.
He is objectively, full-throated pro Big Tech; he invited them all to Washington. He is talking about a national OpenAI stake, he is talking up data centres, he literally brought Elon Musk into his cabinet. He’s publicly received hundreds in millions of dollars in donations from Tech CEOs! Repeatedly.
Yet even this movement simply cannot bring themselves to say “maybe he’s wrong on this one?”
what? it’s coming from your own people
yeah the GOP will produce an edict about how AI is good and they’ll probably fall in line.
Well, except the ones paying more for everything - hey wait a minute, that’s what we get with everything GOP what the fuck
Fake ass protest. Conservatives love AI.
The cool new shill tactic is to pretend to be anti-AI or “concerned about AI” so they can hijack the conversation and re-direct people’s focus away from actual change and regulation. They bring up do-nothing solutions like “Local LLMs” or a there being a “public stake” in the industry.
Lemmy is absolutely thick with these cockroaches.
Or will only have issues with the datacenters and electric bills, but still want their free slop machine from those corporations.
Yeah they are called liberal zionist
Apparently DOGE was just a hallucination.
“IT’S AFFECTING ME NOW!!!”
Think they’ll beat the living fuck out of some cops and attempt to murder some politicians? Seems to be the standard for their “protests”.
Fuckin hope so tbh, it’d be amazing to see it happen for a good cause for once
Woke AI companies are making all conservative men super gay.
AI keeps being woke, which is a problem
It’s funny to me when their supreme leader keeps using ai generated videos to “own” his enemies. Did you all see the one of him as a doctor diagnosing TDS?
Occupy Wall Street taught us one thing; trying to cooperate with conservatives is like trying to fuck a cactus. In theory, it could fit in that hole. In practice, it’ll do more damage than anything else.
This feels super weird. Would they turn liberals away if they showed up? (Or at least tell them to go protest across the street because “this side is for anti-globalists” or whatever.) I dunno, just seems odd to try to create a popular movement specifically by alienating people who would agree with them on that particular issue.
I’m going to see if my DSA Chapter can get some people to these protests and hand out lit.
Am… am I about to go to a conservative protest? That was not on my bingo card.
Edit: I’d be curious to hear from the AI data center fanboys down voting me.
Shit is gonna get weirder before it gets more normal. The end might be in sight but the ride ain’t over. I’m pretty sure America First is what most Trump voters thought they were voting for. Not especially friendly on social policy but not controlled top-down like MAGA and the Tea Party. More American, less 'murica AFAIK
The end is only near if workers are on the same side. This might be the thing that does it.
Too many gray areas (bodies of water) on that map with no red anywhere near them. The people there are going to be really surprised to learn that they’ve been living on some tech company’s water all their lives, and that their local water board all retired and left the state at the same time.
Thanks for the list of targets. The enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend, if they also explicitly consider me to be less than human
Lefties should co-opt it
No. Co-opting shit is one of the worst tendencies that comes out of the left
But they could go and support it. Imagine organising a conservative anti-ai rally and getting met not with a counter protest, but with a horde of left/progressive people supporting your core message. It would be a head fuck and maybe enough to make you start questioning your reality and allegiances.
Supporting it is co-opting it
I would interpret “Co-opting” as taking it over from the inside and changing it’s aims internally.
Protest are for goverments that listen. These chuds chase cars.
