Our end point is roughly the same (workers need to organize) but man alive do I disagree with that writer’s lengthy reasoning and observations. It feels like he’s responding far too earnestly to a few dozen specific social media straw men and influencers and barely mentions why your average working or part-time artists feel threatened by the rise of generative AI, or what these workers should actually do in the meantime as their means of living disappear into data centers.
Generative AI as it exists from the Big American Tech Companies is irredeemably evil and I have yet to see any convincing arguments for using it. These closed-source models are capitalist tools built for capitalist goals consuming titanic amounts of resources and money so billionaires don’t have to pay humans for artistic labor. Every prompt eats bottles of fresh water and piles of fossil-fuel power. The data centers are ruining human quality of life all over the world with their noise and consumption.
Why should I contribute to that in any way?
(Self-hosted open-source models are far less harmful anyway.)
Their analysis is the critique against artisanal reaction but now applied in the context of AI; a lot of westerners’ “marxist” takes is just proudhonism and the author was using this as an example to highlight that.
Our end point is roughly the same (workers need to organize) but man alive do I disagree with that writer’s lengthy reasoning and observations. It feels like he’s responding far too earnestly to a few dozen specific social media straw men and influencers and barely mentions why your average working or part-time artists feel threatened by the rise of generative AI, or what these workers should actually do in the meantime as their means of living disappear into data centers.
Generative AI as it exists from the Big American Tech Companies is irredeemably evil and I have yet to see any convincing arguments for using it. These closed-source models are capitalist tools built for capitalist goals consuming titanic amounts of resources and money so billionaires don’t have to pay humans for artistic labor. Every prompt eats bottles of fresh water and piles of fossil-fuel power. The data centers are ruining human quality of life all over the world with their noise and consumption.
Why should I contribute to that in any way?
(Self-hosted open-source models are far less harmful anyway.)
Their analysis is the critique against artisanal reaction but now applied in the context of AI; a lot of westerners’ “marxist” takes is just proudhonism and the author was using this as an example to highlight that.