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See the difference? Criticize Amazon for its devastatingly effective automation and you help Amazon sell stock to suckers, which makes Amazon executives richer. Criticize Amazon for *lying* about its automation, and you clobber the personal net worth of the executives who spun up this lie, because their portfolios are full of Amazon stock:
Pluralistic: Three AI Insights for Hard-Charging, Future-Oriented Smartypantses
Cory Doctorow
It was important to me then to prove that I was a special person. And in my attempt to prove it, I made it true. Only afterwards, when I had received the money and acclaim which I believed I deserved, did I understand that it was not possible for anyone to deserve these things, and by then it was too late. I had already become the person I had once longed to be, and now energetically despised. I don’t say this to slight my work. But why should anyone be rich and famous while other people live in desperate poverty?
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
There is a rather stubborn conflation of the *creative process* with *creative outcomes* tied to generative AI. This is seen in diffusion models — tools that generate images from prompts — but also from LLMs. In the creativity myth, the artist's role is to produce images, and the author’s role is to create text. This conflates the labor of writing with its product.
Challenging the Myths of Generative AI
Eryk Salvaggio
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