Michael Halila 🏳️⚧️
The whole "AI", i.e. content generator, spectacle is such a perfect example of why the idea that technology is neutral is such garbage.
There are so many damn things we could be doing with all this processing power and money, and what the people making the decisions are choosing to do is line their own pockets and destroy the livelihoods of the people they call "creatives". Stealing other people's work and repackaging it as computer-generated swill. The stupidity of it is infuriating.
Michael Halila 🏳️⚧️
What they're trying to sell to us is the idea that somehow, this technology just appeared on its own, and now we have to adjust to it. A notion of technology as an inevitable force of nature.
A large portion of the world's journalists are helping them pull the scam off by constantly writing about technology as if it just shows up and does things on its own. As if people weren't constantly making choices on how to develop and deploy it.
Michael Halila 🏳️⚧️
"AI is going to take your job!"
Like hell it is. Try:
"A super-rich capitalist has invested billions of dollars into replacing human creative work with a shitty computer program, so he can pocket more of the profits."
When you stop intentionally obscuring who is doing things and who is benefiting from them, the world starts looking very different indeed.
Eric Lawton
A point the Luddites tried to make.
Which is why they're vilified now.
Same tactics as with "woke".
Michael Halila 🏳️⚧️
Several people have replied to this post without reading it, and at least two have started mansplaining what I said to me. And you people said this platform couldn't replace Twitter!
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