Why would they go after their friends and bosses?

Although I agree with you, I had that issue well before AI was a thing:

“I dunno, I just copied it from this StackOverflow post…”

<cut to me raging that someone would do that>

Agreed. I think they should have pushed for stronger disclosure requirements, but I also realise that isn’t actually enforceable.

I also find it very telling that people will talk about the negative parts of AI, but not acknowledge other automation tools that perpetuate the same problems. My experience is that most people’s complaints have a real basis, but they are just mis-diagnosed.

The problems seem to be our economic and societal structures, and AI is the new fancy tool that exacerbates those problems. But I’ve not heard a good reason why AI itself is that problem.

Can you at least try to answer my question?

You laid out a set of criteria: “…wage theft, human suffering, environmental destruction and empowerment of the oligarchies”

All of the examples I gave meet that criteria. Why is AI different?

Come on, be honest.

Then why are you mad at AI? Those fit all of the same requrirements that you listed above. Why do you think one is bad, but not the other?

So are you mad at power-tools? The internet? Cars? Because they are “building on the base of wage theft, human suffering, environmental destruction and empowerment of the oligarchies.”

Why are you mad at one set of tools, but not the other sets of tools?

“permanant”

Brought to you by the same companies that “accidentally” re-add you to their spam lists.

No, not really. There are models based on freely given training data. There are models used without wasting large amounts of electricity. There are models that aren’t used to empower the oligarchs.

It sounds like you are mad at our economic and societal structures, but taking your anger out on the tools.

That’s… not too far from how I got into it. My parents didn’t know how to find porn, music, or tv shows my my linux systems

It’s just a normal sticker, so it would work on pretty much anything. I think of it more as a way to donate to a group that I like, as well as good advertising for them.

I’ve been covering my cameras with tape for a long time. If you wanna get fancy with it, the EFF sells laptop camera stickers: https://shopeff.org/products/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii