• Billegh@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    True, but printing presses errored in consistent ways and could easily be fixed by someone literate in the language being printed. The only black boxes were the cases containing letter stamps. The smashing was happening because of what was being printed, and not because suddenly statistically relevant portions of the workforce were now unemployed and possibly unemployable. The situation is a bit different…

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      3 hours ago

      Not that different than now. Are people pushing back against AI when it’s used to accelerate cancer research data? The pushback is when people think it’s being used against them, just like the printing press.