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Conservatives are organizing a national anti-AI protest on July 18th (europe.pub)
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The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI's invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they're trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 65 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

This is what always gets me.

US dems will throw their leaders under the bus in a split second, or fry them over the slightest past scandal.

Even those that won't will criticize them over specific issues.

Most Republicans, no matter what, cannot blame Trump.

He is objectively, full-throated pro Big Tech; he invited them all to Washington. He is talking about a national OpenAI stake, he is talking up data centres, he literally brought Elon Musk into his cabinet. He's publicly received hundreds in millions of dollars in donations from Tech CEOs! Repeatedly.

Yet even this movement simply cannot bring themselves to say "maybe he's wrong on this one?"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Musk was never in his cabinet, that requires Senate confirmation.

Turns out you don't need to be in the cabinet to completely fuck the country up

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

One of the big common themes of conservatism is following the leader. They all want to bend the knee. They love hierarchy.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, the flip-side is there doesn't seem to be nuance or waffling, either.

To Republicans, he's either with them, or not; regular folks who break with Trump over an issue seem to renounce him entirely, from what I've seen.

...Hence I'm positing this could be a breaking point.

I think some Trump supports who join this movement, and start watching his actions closely, are going to hit it. Some already did over Epstein, but this is an issue with broader direct impact in peoples' lives.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

To Republicans, he's either with them, or not; regular folks who break with Trump over an issue seem to renounce him entirely, from what I've seen.

Because once that last straw hits, they stop willfully ignoring everything else and the cognitive dissonance collapses.