allisonoh my god "AI" is such a clown show https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots just a big funhouse mirror of useless labor, all because billionaires and computer scientists can't get it into their heads that the task of accurately answering a question is fundamentally incompatible with statistical prediction
this is among the reasons I get easily frustrated with artists who work with AI claiming that they're "collaborating with the machine." you're not! you're collaborating with other people, it's just that the way you're talking to them is asynchronously and anonymously through a terrible rube goldberg device made of GPUs that distorts everything in the conversation. might as well say that your uber ride is "collaborating with the machine"
серафими многоꙮчитїи@aparrish So, in Marxism there is a thing called 'abstraction', which is ~ about the creation of markets as a way to hide and also magnify the relations of domination. So (for existence) instead of an aristocrat or member of the bourgeoisie having a relationship with some specific labourers via corvee or wages, through abstraction they could have a relationship with 'labour'. I see Uber/'AI' as the next form of this - a hyperabstraction - where there is a new intermediary (the platform/'AI')...
@aparrish So with hyperabstraction, even the relation with 'labour' (itself a mystification) is mystified; hence the 'I'm collaborating with the machine' stuff. This double mystification is (in part) aimed at fighting collective action, which itself was a response to the first level of mystification which was aimed (in part) at fighting personal action.