Are you aware that the Writer's Guild of America were striking for 4 months against AI doing their jobs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Writers_Guild_of_America_...

There are also many law suits against AI works:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/books/authors-openai-laws...

You really require that they resort to physical violence when they know fully that data in one DC will be backed up elsewhere so it will have no effect. From my pov, they are using the violence of the legal system to stop/slow AI.

> Are you aware that the Writer's Guild of America were striking

Hollywood strikes are something that happens every ~5 years even without AI. [1]

> There are also many law suits against AI works

If they won then maybe that would count. Otherwise I see it as "PETA sued zoos".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hollywood_strikes

Are you really calling a legal strike violence? What options do the working class have left then, if even their legal rights are considered violence? This rhetoric is dangerous and completely anti-worker.

> From my pov, they are using the violence of the legal system to stop/slow AI.

Luddites used extra-legal methods to try to accomplish their goals, so I don't think the comparison really works.

I'm not a historian but I think luddites need to be seen in the context of the history of trade unions. Unions at the time existed but didn't have the power they developed in the 1900s. So extra legal means seemed to be all that was available to them; while nowadays people can work more effectively inside the law.

if it puts a billion people out of work I don't think that having a few hundred data centres will help even slightly