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Members’ subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
It's executives and their shareholders attempting to grow company profits, dividends and their own compensation by introducing a new form of automation that not only justifies cost-cutting, but operates by lessening the economic value of the human-authored works that are used for 'AI training', while fracturing worker solidarity by encouraging them to collaborate with genAI "copilots" rather than each other.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
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So, too, with our online activities, where our relationships and conversations are our modern-day yields, designed to harvest ever more data. As with corn and soy grown in great monocrops, quality and individuality are sacrificed in favor of standardization and homogenization, even when homogenization takes the form of individuals all competing to stand out as quirky and utterly unique.
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