Different factions of the same plutocratic class. Whoever is voted benefits more than the other, but you still lose either way.

Enshittification is not the worry. However we’re extremely vulnerable to spam and dead internet.

For me it stopped me plenty of times.

You need to share the schadenfreude with the rest of us, brother.

Unfortunately that’s not how it works. Once you have a sufficiently large userbase, the network effects are enough to sustain them. A ton of people use facebook still and that has been a logged-in experience forever. Same with instagram.

Copyright violation is punishable by law, yes. But it’s it’s not theft.

A billionaire’s company feeding a machine all human thought for purposes of replacing said human is absolutely theft.

It’s immoral sure, but not theft. We don’t need to equivocate to pass moral judgement.

Copyright violations aren’t stealing. Human thought cannot be “stolen”, only shared.

Copyrights won’t help you here. It’s not the same code or assets

You mean if Israel gives order

My point is, even a racist bridge has uses as a bridge. The solution is not to tear down the bridge, it’s to address the systematic racism. Likewise with GenAI tech, we are not involved in making it, nor do we promote that the way it was created was correct. We just say that people using it are not necessarily reinforcing the problem, anymore than a random pedestrian crossing that bridge would be reinforcing racism.

Yes, the way the tech was created and is being used, is problematic; an imperfect creation of a deeply flawed system. I’m not disputing that. I’m disputing that any and all uses of an imperfect creation are by necessity “fascist”

I feel the author routinelly conflates technology with technological implementations to make their point. For example, they conflate surveillance, with camera equipment and they conflate bridges, with city planning. What me and others are pointing out, is that we’re not hostile to GenAI as the technology (like cameras, bridges) but we’re absolutely against the popular (i.e. corporate) GenAI implementations.

I feel there’s no harm whatsoever to use GenAI to personal gratification. Games, Porn, Shortcuts on boring but known tasks etc. But there’s absolutely harm to using corporate AI to do so, and there’s absolutely harm in using it for purposes outside of it (facts, propaganda, agents etc)

And yes, any technology built in capitalist systems, will be inevitably corrupted from its inception from those systems. This is not exclusive to GenAI as a technology however.

We don’t consider that.