Raw LLM Responses

It's upsetting to me just how much private interests have ruined all the cool shit about technology. AI and other tech could be an otherworldly improvement to everyone's quality of life. The productivity increase could mean we can work less and enjoy our lives more. Outsourcing of menial labour could mean we can spend more time doing interesting things. I'd even bet artists would be less opposed to AI art if it didn't actively threaten their livelihoods. If they could make art for art's sake rather than having to do it to feed themselves, derivative work might be more flattering and allow them to push their own creativity and artistic boundaries further. I'm a programmer. One of my first jobs involved working on a piece of accounting software. What this *should* have meant was that accountants in the firm could spend less time working and spend less time on dumb data entry tasks. What this actually meant was that the company could now afford to get by with fewer accountants and pocket the difference. I miss the days where I was optimistic about technology. When all this stuff was new and niche, when the internet was almost an anarchist collective in the way that things were run. Then we got all these capitalist psychopaths who realized that the massive quality of life improvement could instead be traded in for ungodly profit margins. AI could be *so* fucking cool and useful and a general quality of life improvement for everyone. And all these billionaire pricks keep selling it as if it's going to be used for that. But we know it will just be another way to transfer wealth and power to the ruling class. I think our societies have to make a choice here. We can accept that this is what we're doing now and take on our roles as modern day serfs. If we don't want to do that, we have to, we *have to* take this shit from them by force. These tools are built on publicly funded research done by universities; these companies only adopt them once the profit motive exis