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When LLMs are promoted as something consumers would adopt voluntarily, it serves as an alibi for the technology’s punitive and exploitative functionality. Sometimes the promise is that generative AI will level the playing field, as with claims that the technology will “democratize” content creation or coding skills. But more typically the emphasis is on how it will save consumers effort — it will make you feel like a boss over some fully compliant servant who does the work for you.
Summaries Without Originals
Rob Horning
I don’t believe it is time for reflexive pessimism. Doomerism isn’t the answer. We don’t need a new round of “Satanic panic - TikTok edition.”
Passages Saved From iOS
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René Girard’s [theory of mimetic desire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory), which can be summed up best as:
> Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.
Nerd Culture Is Murdering Intellectuals
Erik Hoel
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