I only saw Her once, when it came out, but I didn't view it as an AI dystopia. The dystopia existed before the AI, and was mostly meant to represent the world s

I only saw Her once, when it came out, but I didn't view it as an AI dystopia. The dystopia existed before the AI, and was mostly meant to represent the world some of us already lived in, but which was not evenly distributed at the time. I thought the AI part was meant to be a metaphor for personal growth. I agree that trying to recreate the world of Snow Crash or Neuromancer is missing the point, and some people do seem to be trying to do that, but the central example used in this essay also feels like it's missing the point, just in a different way.