Jobs and AI (and f-in' YouTube, apparently)

[thankyouforthis]

I came here after a long absence to vent because my company just hired a Director of Digital Infrastructure and that title, to me, sounds like someone whose job it is to implement AI everywhere and cut as many jobs as possible. So I am worried about losing my job-- only not really, because I keep reminding myself we're just a few years away from demand for potable water exceeding supply worldwide, so what's unemployment compared to that?

Then I come here and I see I've been tagged in something, and apparently people are making YouTube videos about this site and at least one such video has mentioned me somehow-- only I have no idea how, because it has since been deleted. This sort of thing is why I got off all social media many, many years ago and only relatively recently started speaking here. Now I'm worried these a-holes are gonna strip me of the one place left online where I actually feel safe speaking and not just reading.

Trying to decide whether or not to change my username but, without knowing how it was used exactly and given that I'm not a very active user, not sure it's worth it. I just hate feeling like this may well be my last post here because now I have to worry that other people who don't "approve" of my mental state or whatever are going to use my words to fuck up my life even further.

*Edited because I used the wrong "whose" the first time.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I believe they were pressured into making the video private. I also felt the same though- sickened really. Worried as to which post they'd used. I didn't want to watch it because I knew it would just infuriate me plus- support their channel.

I suppose I feel like changing names would only do so much. We can still identify the new name via knowing those older posts. If people were that interested to do that.

It's maybe a shield against newer lurkers or members who lie their way in. I don't sense there has been quite the influx as there was after Tantacrul's video though. I'm not sure.

I sympathise with how you feel though. Many of us are so grateful for this place as a safe space to be ourselves. It's horrible to find that being used for entertainment purposes offsite.