I keep seeing academics very excited for some bright and shiny #AI future where like all information self assembles and you can know anything instantly and you write papers by just gesturing at a thought with a couple of sentences and I have no idea how they don't see a) that playing out as them getting further trapped onto extractive platforms, b) not actually going to work even remotely like that and c) that sounds pretty bleak to me even if it did work 100% as intended