Didn't think our boy karl marx would be relevant here lol but yeah that's a very commodity-fetishistic way to look at the value of AI/assumes that the value of

Didn't think our boy karl marx would be relevant here lol but yeah that's a very commodity-fetishistic way to look at the value of AI/assumes that the value of the generative models is that they generate output that has some sort of market value as a commodity by itself. Makes way more sense to think of it as a service than a means of production. I'm not gonna pay for an ai generated image, but would I pay for access to better internet search, or document understanding, or for help understanding/writing code in new codebases? Yeah I would. Clearly there's enough people that haven't cancelled their chatgpt subscription that the value is greater than zero. Including negative externalities net value might even end up negative, which would make it hard to argue it has little influence elsewhere if it has a negative influence on e.g. artist pay or electoral democracy.