https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765798/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugs_(TV_series)
Perhaps Tugs is the show you're thinking of? Makes sense that it was reminiscent of Thomas the Tank Engine because it was created by some of the people behind the original Thomas series.
I mean... it seems painfully obvious and doesn't need much of a thesis behind it.
The wealthy want their slaves back, but they want slaves that don't push back, never ask for more, never need a day off, don't need sleep, don't need breaks, and are needlessly sycophantic to stroke the egos of the wealthy. It's no more complex than that: the promise of LLMs was that they could have deeply exploitable knowledge workers without any of the fuss or mess of humans who want a life outside of their fucking jobs.
Like what else has this ever been? It's been transparent since day one that this is why every business pushes AI adoption so hard, for them it has to work, they're willing to bet the future on it because they think their sheer belief in it and throwing money at it will eventually "make it work."
On the plus side, anyone who understands LLMs understands their limitations and the problems that are baked in to how they work and how those issues can't be "fixed." So this dipshit ass all-in plan that the wealthy have is doomed to crumble because it's never going to work the way they want it to. So we've got that going for us.
Anyway I hate tools being described as "tools of the ruling class" because it often misses the point of how such tools can be useful to the proletariat as well. Class solidarity is a tool of the ruling class, but class solidarity would be golden in the hands of the proletariat, who vastly outnumber the wealthy class and ruling class. All tools are useful, what makes a tool dangerous is who wields it and what they choose to use it for. A hammer can be used to build and it can also be used to smash in someone's skull. Tools aren't the problem: specific dangerous humans are. I don't actually have huge problems with AI LLMs providing they are open source and rolled out small scale on home PCs, I just have an issue with their industrial applications at scale and the attempt to use them to consolidate power and control. They don't have to be used that way.
I'm not sure the exact age, but anywhere between 2 and 3, because I spent a lot of time in hospitals at that age, I had some serious issues when I was young. I remember being in the hospital and hating it, and it feeling dark and foreboding. I never understood what was going on and I was scared. I remember my mom giving me a Hot Wheels-sized toy helicopter and truck. I have panic attacks being hooked up to medical machines as an adult, and I hate having my blood drawn or having an IV.
I like this meandering path that stops at the merch booth and the restroom.
I'd rather have a Venezuelan wife anyway. Blue aliens are overrated, they don't even have aliussy, just weird tentacle shit.
Priorities, priorities.
Shyrah Horse
That look when she wants you to infodump in her until it's running down her leg.
I prefer hot water bottles but that's just me.
I know that electric blankets are much safer than they used to be but I have a lot of anxiety related to fire, so just not for me.
I see way more posts complaining about Windows users complaining about switching to Linux than I have ever actually seen of Windows users actually complaining about switching to Linux.
Take you upvote and get out.