{"id":7565,"date":"2023-12-30T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T13:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2023-12-30T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T13:19:04","slug":"ai-as-an-accellerator-of-bad-good-but-mostly-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/ai-as-an-accellerator-of-bad-good-but-mostly-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"AI as an accellerator of bad\/good but mostly bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cMy personal worry is that for a long time, we sought to diversify the voices \u2014 you know, who is telling the stories? And we tried to give agency to people from different parts of the world,\u201c she said. \u201cNow we\u2019re giving a voice to machines.\u201d<\/p>\nRest of world, Victoria Turk: How AI reduces the world to stereotypes<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A fantastic comparison of how Midjourney renders five terms: a person, a woman, a house, a street, and a plate of food<\/em>. It comes out as stereotyped as you can imagine, but the work they put in to do the comparison really shows it in stark light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In that dismal moment I could feel that the systems meant to process us haven\u2019t \u201cgone wrong\u201d when they embarrass us. They aren\u2019t being refined toward some higher level of seamlessness, once the technology and the data sets improve. Rather they \u201cimprove\u201d by relocating the frictions we inevitably feel and giving it no outlet. The indifference of these systems to us and our powerlessness in the face of them in that moment becomes the indifference of society and our powerlessness to change it. In a flash, the welling irritation conveys instantly, reflexively, that solidarity must be impossible in a world where all human relations are machine-mediated.<\/p>\nRob Horning: Two riders were approaching<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This sentence explains more peotically what I wrote a while back<\/a>: “\u2026 it will not only be “the market” which will have decided that you can no longer afford your medicin, your education, or your vacation \u2013\u00a0it will be an AI which will have endless patience to listen to your litany, but no semblence of decency to react to it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work has not disappeared from the restaurant floor, but the person doing the work has changed. Instead of an employee inputting orders dictated by the customer, customers now do it themselves for free. Fauxtomation strikes again. [\u2026] But while the gap between advertising copy and reality can be risible, fauxtomation also has a more nefarious purpose. It reinforces the perception that work has no value if it is unpaid and acclimates us to the idea that one day we won\u2019t be needed.<\/p>\nAstra Taylor<\/strong>: The faux-bot revolution<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We are so primed for a technologically advanced future that we’re bluepilling ourselves into accepting fake automation as real. There is a man behind the curtain, and it’s us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The largest corporations on earth ripped off generations of artists without permission or compensation to produce programs meant to rip us off even more. I believe A.I. defenders know this is unethical, which is why they distract us with fan fiction about the future.<\/p>\nNew Republic, Lincoln Michael: The year AI came for culture<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A great essay that puts the AI wars into a power perspective \u2013 technology used to extract labour and gain regulatory capture. Haves against have-nots. As usual. A very down to earth summery for the year 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy personal worry is that for a long time, we sought to diversify the voices \u2014 you know, who is telling the stories? And we tried to give agency to people from different parts of the world,\u201c she said. \u201cNow we\u2019re giving a voice to machines.\u201d Rest of world, Victoria Turk: How AI reduces the … Continue reading AI as an accellerator of bad\/good but mostly bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}