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If the legions of Facebook likers can be placated with AI-generated viral content, that would protect actual people from the downsides that come with unwanted or unexpected publicity at uncontrollable scale. Maybe it would be better if only bots and fakes went viral and not actual people who suffer actual fallout from it. Any story where the specific identity of the person doesn’t matter to its appeal may as well be populated with an AI-generated character.
Have You Heard the Word
Rob Horning
Ability is the apparatus that establishes a shift in liberalism’s approach to the body and to the economy. It is the new approach to human capacity that gives rise to a new economic theory of labor – one grounded in new kind of *Homo Oeconomicus*: human capital.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
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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