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As Richard Seymour writes in his blistering 2019 dissection of social media, The Twittering Machine, we think we are interacting—writing and singing and dancing and talking—with one another, “our friends, professional colleagues, celebrities, politicians, royals, terrorists, porn actors—anyone we like. We are not interacting with them, however, but with the machine. We write to it, and it passes on the message for us, after keeping a record of the data.”
The anthropomorphic element of genAI, the on-going conflation of these stochastic parrots with autonomous beings, is a wedge driven between people and their actual coworkers. I think it's another way of enforcing 'self-reliance' and the creed of individual success, with an indentured genAI servant at your elbow to help you lift yourself by your own bootstraps, and ultimately, I think it's workers who will be blamed by many company heads if the adoption of genAI fails to deliver the much-hyped returns.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
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Even the people who know how the sausage gets made don’t really want to read about it in the paper.
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