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Originally Posted By u/transcendent167 At 2025-05-02 10:43:07 AM | Source


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[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago
[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Using AI to make anti-billionaire media is ironic in a kind of satisfying way, honestly. Turn their weapons against them!

[-] KAtieTot 16 points 4 days ago

???? Bad argument for the use of AI.

Ai is shit. It makes shit. It's powered by precious fresh water and it wastes monumental amounts of electricity. And y'know, the massive amounts of theft.

All to what? Generate some soulless bullshit?

If you're making art to defy the rich, maybe actually make the fucking art yourself? Instead of making empty, lifeless facsimilies of resistance art?

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Unless it's run on a local machine, the billionaires are still getting money

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago
[-] Turret3857@infosec.pub 7 points 4 days ago

User Numbers = Venture Capitalists. They don't need to see immediate profit to invest. They just need to see a user base and a feasible plan to make profit. See Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, InstaCart and most infamously MoviePass.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The billionaires are winning that battle, but losing the war. (Hopefully.)

Edit: If you can do $0.25 in billionaire economic damage with $0.10 in AI credits, you have won. I think this is entirely feasible, and simply needs scale.

[-] vaguerant@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

Mr. Rich over here doesn't have any $0 notes. Must be nice.

[-] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I just learned the fun fact that some countries do actually have $0 notes. It's to discourage authorities from taking bribes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rupee_note?wprov=sfla1

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Zero-rupee notes are the creation of a non-governmental organization known as 5th Pillar

I may be nit picking; this is very interesting regardless. But I wouldn't say "India has zero rupee notes". Someone printed these to make a point. You or I could print zero notes for our countries too if we wanted.

[-] TheAlbatross 14 points 4 days ago

Dude could make just enough effort to type a prompt into a billionaire's machine but not make their own art.

Fucking sad

[-] hazl 2 points 2 days ago

I tried. And I never try.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago

99% of the world's problems could be meaningfully dealt with if we got rid of billionaires .... and the biggest problems we'd be dealing with after them would be trying to solve interstellar travel. Instead we're fighting wars to try to figure out which small group of idiots get to own all the imaginary money in the world.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Yep. 90% of the world’s brightest minds are dedicated to ad optimization, not actually useful technology.

If we had simply put our resources towards spaceflight or, I dunno, solving world hunger, it would be done by now. But the “invisible hand” optimizes for greed and money, not real progress.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

What's with the watermark?

[-] Therobohour@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I live in Ireland and the billionaires have ravaged this country,and now they're desperately trying to blame immigration. And they're right,we should be sending any immigrate with more than €2billion back where they came from

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The billionaires want immigrants from poor nations because they're less likely to unionize or demand higher wages.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And they changed the meaning of middle class by calling well paid workers middle class, so the working class is divided and these well educated and high paid workers are less likely to organize with the low wage workers against the interest of the billionaires.

The old meaning of middle class is wealthy people who make money from capital but have no noble title, aka the bourgeoisie. If you have to work to make a living then you are in the working class doesn’t matter if you earn 6 figures.

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