This is the best episode of TrueAnon since the The Game series, and the best interview relating to "AI" in its current form you'll find on any podcast.

They interview Douglas Rushkoff "to discuss what's real and what's fake about the AI publicity push, the next phase of the internet, and human connection in the oppressive techno-future."

Rushkoff is the perfect guest for this topic on this show. Brace and Liz are incredibly insightful on the issue.

Go listen to it. If someone has a non-patreon'd link, please do share.

I specifically can't get over Rushkoff's point about how "AI" as it's being used is - instead of allowing us to see the humanity behind the machine - is instead conforming us the actual people to be more machine-like, through things like auto-correct and auto-complete algorithms, we are being nudged and incentivized and prodded into thinking less, relying on the AI more, for the sake of endless efficiency, at the cost of creativity and any language beyond the most default efficient way of speaking or thinking.

"AI" isn't intelligent, or sentient, or sapient, but it may as well be, for how it only exists to - as a technology and concept - get human beings to shave themselves down for the sake of the AI's ease.

Every time we use it, we help it far more than it helps us, and it's not even really helping us...

GO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE, IT'S INCREDIBLE

  • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    i know i plug TMK a lot but they have a similarly themed episode if this is speaking to you

    https://podbay.fm/p/this-machine-kills/e/1674161617

    1. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead

    1 hour 19 minutes Posted Jan 19, 2023 at 3:53 pm.

    SHOW NOTES

    We spend more time talking about the political economy of AI – the production and application of AI within a capitalist system and how it might (and should) differ within a socialist or communist system. We pay particular attention to discussing the growing and specialized industries for producing, supporting, propping up, and stepping in for AI in a variety of applications. Living labor creates the machinery of dead labor, which then acts as an agent of capital to discipline and dominate living labor, making it more machine-like, thus turning the living into the undead.

    Stuff we reference

    ••• Seven questions to ask about AI https://maxread.substack.com/p/seven-questions-to-ask-about-ai

    ••• Human_Fallback https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/

    ••• The Worldwide Data Annotation Tools Industry is Expected to Reach $13.2 Billion by 2030 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220824005423/en/The-Worldwide-Data-Annotation-Tools-Industry-is-Expected-to-Reach-13.2-Billion-by-2030---ResearchAndMarkets.com