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AI is mostly a novelty, a heavily subsidized toy that produces little more than distraction [Cory Doctorow] (pluralistic.net)

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Just as importantly: we have to stop amplifying tech bosses' chosen narratives about their products' destructive potential, because this helps them raise more money and do more terrible things. Bernie Sanders needs to stop insisting that the US government should own 50% of the money-losingest corporations the world has ever seen and start talking about how they will not get a government bailout when their investment bubble bursts.

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[-] christian@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

The moment we stop believing in that potential is the moment that we stop supplying AI companies with bales of cash to shovel into their money-furnaces so that they can afford to sell hundred dollar bills for a dollar each to Elon Musk cultists who want to generate child porn and pictures of Sonic the Hedgehog with giant boobs.

Doctorow really writes like a poet, doesn't he?

[-] whalebiologist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I read "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" and found it pretty lackluster, he has definitely grown as a writer since then.

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