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Ai Makes me feel true dread for the cultures of future generations. Culture gives an identity to every era. It says something about who they were, about their wants about their struggles. You can feel empathy for older generations through their writing, through their music, through their stories. It is a reminder that they were young, that we were young. A snapshot of humanity at it's most human. And i feel a lot of second hand rage that this is being taken from future generations. They won't have philosophers. They will be robbed of the duty to make up their own subjectivity, to even dream. Imagine a future that will be undecipherable through all the noise; Imagine eras that killed it's thinkers, that lost all will to say something meaningful to others. Imagine eras marked by centralized monopolized aesthetics; Eras where it's impossible to run from ideologies focus tested by algorithms and fascist governments and technocrats. Imagine the most inhuman of futures.
And what scares me the most is that there is people out there that look forward to all that.
I just heard someone the other day absolutely geek out about an Anthropic demo at his company which showed how easy it would be to replace him, a software engineer for a defense contractor. This AI bullshit is sooooo good at giving you something that looks like what you want but will quickly break down when faced with the slightest tension. So. Fucking bleak.
And don’t get me started with the “it’ll only get better types.” Like OK, pray fucking tell. Are you saying we’re going to need more compute to make better models? More compute that comes from precious minerals pillaged from the global south? Or do you actually believe computers are magical and you can just tell ChatGPT to give you more ram without any cost to the physical world?