tl;dr on this one the loudest AI criticisms are the ones that serve existing power structures, and yet its most serious harms are the ones that don't.

Or, you frequently hear "well, analytical AI is good, but generative AI is bad", but there isn't really a hard difference between the two. They often share identical underlying architecture. Like, transformers power both BERT and GPT. Vision Transformers handle tumour detection and image generation.

People often compare "AI bros" to "NFT bros", rightly so (often the same obnoxious people). Yet in the same breath, many will *also* essentially say right-click-saving an image is theft. I can't stand the spread of slop either, but I think that argument could set a dangerous precedent in other ways

Like, I often hear "plagiarism machine that's killing the planet" but I'm very convinced that the copyright panic is actually *harming* artists far more than helping them. Strengthening Disney and Getty's IP rights in the name of "protecting artists" is a very bad thing, I think!

When anything a woman did could be “feminist!” and hence could not be critiqued in feminist terms, then feminism ceased to mean anything.

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anyway there's a reason why even today, the great majority of CSA against boys is STILL committed by cis HET men. it's not a contradiction at all. we still live in a patriarchal society, just one in which these normative practices have been obscured by historically recent psychiatric discourses