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These are all fields with something in common: shitty bosses with little regard for their customers who have been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to slash contract labor. To quote Merchant, “the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of ‘powerful AI’ encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have.”
The Case Against Generative AI
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
As the ideology behind this bait-and-switch leaks into the wider culture, it slowly corrodes our own self-understanding. If you try to point out, in a large lecture or online forum on AI, that ChatGPT does not experience and cannot think about the things that correspond to the words and sentences it produces — that it is only a mathematical generator of expected language patterns — chances are that someone will respond, in a completely serious manner: “But so are we.”
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
It shows as well in their general attitude toward art, which as critic Philip Maciak [pointed out](https://newrepublic.com/article/172449/mrs-davis-peacock-review-weirder-than-artificial-intelligence), treats it as “a problem to be solved … an uncomfortably irreducible remainder to optimizing the world.” AI proponents would like to reveal artistic creation to be a gimmick, and such notions as “genius” and “inspiration” — or the possibility of aesthetic judgment in general — as tricks, as “glib illusions.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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