alt Hacker NewsThere are plenty of non-blockchain, non-NFT, non-online gambling, non-adtech, non-facist software jobs. In fact, the vast majority of software jobs are. You can refuse to work with all of these things and not even notice a meaningful difference in career opportunities.
If you refuse to work with AI, however, you're already significantly limiting your opportunities. And at the pace things are going, you're probably going to find yourself constrained to a small niche sooner rather than later.
If your argument is that there are more jobs that require morally dubious developments (stealing people's IP without licensing it, etc.) than jobs that don't, I don't think that's news.
There's always more shady jobs than ethically satisfying ones. There's increasingly more jobs in prediction markets and other sorts of gambling, adtech (Meta, Google). Moral compromise pays.
But if you really think about it and set limits on what is acceptable for you to work on (interesting new challenges, no morally dubious developments like stealing IP for ML training, etc.) then you simply don't have that FOMO of "I am sacrificing my career" when you screen those jobs out. Those jobs just don't exist for you.
Also, people who tag everybody like that as some sort of "anti-AI" tinfoilhatters are making a straw man argument. Most people with an informed opinion don't like the ways this tech is applied and rolled out in ways that is unsustainable and exploitative of ordinary people and open-source ecosystem, the confused hype around it, circular investment, etc., not the underlying tech on its own. Being vocally against these matters does not make one an unemployable pariah in the slightest, especially considering most jobs these days build on open source and being anti license-violating LLMs is being pro sustainable open-source.