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Contemporary deep learning systems are mostly forms of supervised learning, which means they need training data, which in turn means someone has to do the labour of labelling that data.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
The idea that we are exchanging modes of reading that have been largely dominant in Western societies for the past few centuries for new technologically mediated modes of reading that have more in common with the centuries in which books were chained and the life of the mind was seen as a threat to the spiritual order maintained by the Church should not strike any sane observer as a hopeful or desirable development.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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