the proliferation of "AI" is partly a mass delusion sold by a credulous press to a class of overconfident idiots who just so happen to own everything. but it is also an extension of the way bureaucracy already launders the guilt of that ruling class down to the powerless working class individual.

gen"AI" is, at its core, a mechanical fall guy. it transforms the conversation, obscures the chain of decisions, provides an infinitely malleable alibi to those who have always been and will always be truly responsible for the harms caused by untempered corner-cutting profiteering. it is that simple