I love that this post is literally doing what it’s trying to criticize.
Also, I’ll give you satisfaction and say: if you feel the need to defend the fascists, you’re one of them, so go lick a nazi’s ass and fuck off.
No one’s keeping you here.
1984 was written 80 years ago, yet somehow in multiple parts it describes perfectly what we are seeing today and how AI is a weapon against us.
If you’re truly curious, since I am willing to explain in good faith; the people up top investing in all that AI are investing in ways that not only make us dependent on it with its forced integration into everything and quicker means of doing things, but it is to undermine us as well so that less people can realistically get jobs that require them to be creative, passionate, or expressing personal thought. If they can de-motivate the population and sway them to begin to be dependent on AI to tell them what to think or write for them or create things, they can erase individuality.
Not to mention corporations will force artists to either get paid substantially less, or be forced into manual labor instead.
I love technology. Don’t get me wrong. It’s cool. I’m an artist myself. But I don’t hate AI art because it’s made by a machine; I hate it because ever since it’s been a thing, so many people who use it claim they can’t draw or have no talent, when art is a thing that you learn and practice and put love into and feel proud of. It isn’t easy even for those who make it look so, but it’s fulfilling; and all AI art gives one who generates it a quick hit of dopamine, because the addiction factor is how fast it is, and how cool it seems.
I’ll leave it there, but I just wanted to draw the connection between AI and fascism in good faith here in case you were curious as to the real harm it does. It’s undermining and forced dependency disguised as efficiency. What sucks is so much AI tech could potentially do cool and useful things; but you just have to remember that the rich CEOs investing in the tech aren’t investing in it to help us. They’re investing in ways for them to depend on us less, so we depend on them more and are devalued.
edit: typo
People have been calling 1984 prescient to the current time since at least the 1980s.
And everyone knows my personal theories of how those in power are planning to screw us over are the only valid theory. My mom said I am a very clever boy.
More seriously, I don’t think you’re wrong, but leaning on the authority of 1984 is bound to draw some banter.
Just giving my two cents. Before I read the book I already was making the same predictions based off what we are seeing; but after reading it, it let me know I wasn’t alone in the pattern recognition. My point is that it’s no new thing for people to be making this connection between AI and fascism.
Technology is great, but once the direction starts to be toward replacing human work rather than supplementing or truly enhancing it without direct interference, that’s when it’s easy to get taken advantage of quickly by those up top who don’t have your best interest. If you don’t hold a little bit of skepticism about the intentions of those forcing AI into every space even where it makes no sense, and those refusing to regulate it, it’s easy to forget your own worth, and forfeit your privacy.
Anyway, I understand 1984 isn’t a direct form of evidence; but it is a piece of art that pretty effectively warns of this pattern. The book is dystopian fiction, but it was written for a reason.
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