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For a more spicy take on this, check out Dan McQuillan's essay from February: ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War https://www.vice.com/en/article
by tempaway287641 3y ago
For a more spicy take on this, check out Dan McQuillan's essay from February:
ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akex34/chatgpt-is-a-bullshit-generator-waging-class-war https://www.vice.com/en/article/akex34/chatgpt-is-a-bullshit...
That allegedly well-informed commentators can infer that ChatGPT will be used for "cutting staff workloads" rather than for further staff cuts illustrates a general failure to understand AI as a political project. Contemporary AI, as I argue in my book, is an assemblage for automatising administrative violence and amplifying austerity. ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things. Instead of expressing wonder, we should be asking whether it's justifiable to burn energy at "eye watering" rates to power the world's largest bullshit machine.