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AI's personal toll: job losses and ethical concerns spark opposition

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The author expresses strong personal opposition to AI due to its negative impact on employment and ethical concerns. They highlight friends and colleagues who have lost their jobs, emphasizing the financial and personal toll this has taken. The author also points to broader issues like environmental costs, water usage, and the use of stolen work without compensation or regard for workers' rights. AI

IMPACT Highlights the human cost of AI development, including job displacement and ethical dilemmas.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of personal opinion posts on Mastodon about the negative impacts of AI, lacking broader industry significance or new information.

Read on Mastodon — mastodon.social →

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AI's personal toll: job losses and ethical concerns spark opposition

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # AI None of that, of course, even touches on the environmental costs, the insane water usage, the costs for people having to pay more for electricity, the dest

    # AI None of that, of course, even touches on the environmental costs, the insane water usage, the costs for people having to pay more for electricity, the destruction of books, the wholesale stealing of everything-damn-thing they can suck up, the ethical issues of using stolen w…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I have very good friends who have lost their jobs because of # AI in the past couple of years. I know over a dozen folks it has happened to, and worked with mos

    I have very good friends who have lost their jobs because of # AI in the past couple of years. I know over a dozen folks it has happened to, and worked with most of them at some point. There are literally thousands it has happened to in the industry I'm part of. People losing the…

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