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A Boring Dystopia
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Am I the only person who thinks it’s darkly ironic imagining a worker using a language model to write a script urging people to strike?
Like, if you don’t feel strongly enough to write your own feelings and thoughts how do you possibly think you’re going to be able to connect with other workers?
Counterpoint: A person can feel strongly but can also lack adequate education or skills to achieve such a text on their own. I've met some very simple but kind and good people who struggled with communication. While I'm generally against AI, however in this case, it's a very useful tool for people who can write a simple prompt, but not a detailed document. They will likely still need another helpful human to make sure it's accurate. Sometimes it's not because they don't care enough, sometimes those people are literally ridiculed for how they write and speak and they want to feel not judged for once.
Writing well is not the mark of whether or not you're dedicated to the cause. Someone can write a lot of thoughtful blather and do fuck all to support anything, too. I don't know, this attitude just strikes me as being very dismissive of people with difficult communications issues that still want to be involved. Not everyone needs to be an academic to contribute.
Yeah, that’s fair.
The highest level of education my grandpa achieved was 6th grade, but he still became a spokesperson for his union and partook in an adequate amount of property destruction to accomplish what needed to get done.
I guess I see language models as a tool to displace workers, and in this instance I feel like it’d be way more productive for a group of workers to get together and talk about what they’re trying to accomplish instead of having a language model tell them what to do.
Edit: I guess what I’m saying is that workers don’t need to be sophisticated or eloquent, they just need to be human.