Lux 🦊 :flag_nonbinary: ΘΔ (sharplimefox@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 18:19:52 JST

honestly that way of thinking about the big AI tools ("thought landlords") really crystalizes the ethical problem of delegating to AI companies that i couldn't articulate too well before

like, yeah, there's the catastrophic environmental impact (that you could extent to almost all modern IT), the horrible social aspect of generating torrents of what amounts to polyester but for thoughts, and the deskilling and devaluation of workers (creative or not). it's also not entirely the problem of delegating to a tool (we've been doing that with memory for as long as written history has existed)

companies have literally invented the concept of leasing out the ability to wonder things