Good post by David Golumbia on ChatGPT and how miserable it all is :rat-salute-2:
So it’s a technology that can eliminate jobs, but it’s also entirely useless in the hands of a worker-controlled economy? Only one of these two things can be true.
You misunderstand. AI generation doesn’t meaningfully replace art, but it can substitute for art in contexts where volume trumps content, and if it is embraced on an industrial scale it has the potential to permanently damage art as an institution. Under capitalism, where raw output is a consideration of every artist who needs to be able to make a living, the faux art generated by algorithms will inevitably be mass adopted regardless of the damage it does to society.
“the damage that it does to society”
What damage? If AI art existing and some people ascribing meaning and/or value to is giving the writer of this article (or anyone else) an existential crisis, that is a personal problem, not societal damage. It isn’t a “precursor to fascism” like this absolute shitpost of a Medium article suggests.
The way to square that circle is to say that the jobs it’s eliminating are useless lol
