Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

OpenAI is a social arsonist.

Oh my god, may my kid never discover this 😂 (we are already deep into soda pop)

“Ironically, while naming AI psychosis might seem like a step toward addressing an emerging, unmet public health need, this term easily becomes a distraction from the underlying problem it exposes — by pathologizing users instead of penalizing companies.”

Me too! thanks to @petertarras.bsky.social and @altibel.bsky.social for writing

“Dan McQuillan has suggested to call AI an “apparatus,” since it consists of several layers of technology, institutions, and ideology. Kate Crawford urges us to see AI as “embodied and material, made from natural resources, fuel, human labor, infrastructures, logistics, histories, classifications”

…tools are indispensable; tools don’t have human flaws; technology equals progress and improvement. Indeed, a calculator spits out fault-free calculations, but genAI is not “a calculator for words”