Title: If a hammer was like AI Illustration of a hammer (a line drawing) and the quote "It's just a tool". Various topics surround the hammer and have lines drawn to the hammer, as if explaining what it is made of. Obscured data theft. It copies the design of most constructions in the western, industrialised world without consent and strives to mimic the most average one of those. Bias & injustice. The hammer will most often just hit the thumb of Black, Brown and underserved people. Carbon cost. The energy use is about 100 times greater than achieving a similar result with other tools. Monoculture and power concentration. The hammer is made by a small, western and wealthy subset of humanity – the only ones with the resources to build it. Invisible decision-making. It will mostly “guess” your aim, tend to miss the nail and push for a different design. Often unnoticeably. Accountability projection. If the hammer breaks and hurts someone, it’s only because the hammer has “a mind of its own”. Jerry-building (Misinformation) Optimised for building elaborate structures that don’t hold up to scrutiny. Data/privacy breaches. May reveal blueprints from other people using a hammer from the same manufacturer, or other personal data that happened to be part of its development. Moderator trauma Low-wage moderators work around the clock watching filth and violence to ensure the hammer can’t be used to build brothels or torture chambers. Unless someone hacks it of course. The footer reads: "You can’t own it, but you can subscribe. Perpetually." CC BY-SA Per Axbom. version 1, June 2023. Download on axbom.com/hammer-ai
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