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The eye of cyber-capital is a mapping eye, an eye which maps out the territory of experience that it extends to in order to divide it, diagrammatically, into forms of property and systems of capital accumulation and expansion.
As Whittaker warns, this resource-intensive paradigm is “capturing” entire zones of academic research: choking off funding for alternative technologies that do not favor the world’s largest tech companies. Indeed, as the cost of training new models [has risen by .5 orders of magnitude every year since 2009](https://epochai.org/blog/trends-in-the-dollar-training-cost-of-machine-learning-systems), “AI” increasingly becomes an engine for consolidating monopoly power.
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”
Lauren M. E. Goodlad & Samuel Baker
It’s not capitalism in the traditional sense, but an abstracted hyper-capitalism utterly divorced from getting anything done. In fact, the closer to the creation of value you get under this scheme, the farther you are from the money.
Program or Be Programmed
Douglas Rushkoff
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