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Interestingly, the dopamine framing is also an artifact of the condition it tries to explain: it is a powerful and catchy meme, although one that is offered in the best spirit. For these reasons, I fear that it may trap us in the very patterns that it seeks to overcome.
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society
Narayanan and Kapoor offer a vision of informed consumers and enlightened executives working together to field some institutional critiques and entertain *some* political debates. They cannot entertain more substantive fixes because they don’t seem to be aware of more substantive problems. *AI Snake Oil* has relatively little to say on what we should do about AI besides make it work in vaguely more sustainable and responsible ways.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
AI relies on [thousands of human](https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/) workers to test the technology, which often means reviewing harmful and hateful content at high volume for exceptionally low pay; “The work is so immiserating,” the authors report, “that many data annotation firms have taken to recruiting prisoners, people in refugee camps, and people in collapsing economies.”
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
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