Silicon Valley wants us to believe ChatGPT and other AI tools will usher in a wonderful tech utopia (unless it destroys the human species).

But those narratives distract us from the truth that generative AI isn’t about making the world a better place. Its goal is to enrich investors and reduce the power of everyone else, and we need to recognize that before it’s too late.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-chatgpt-revolution-is-another

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The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy

Generative AI will enrich investors and be deployed against everyone else

Disconnect
@parismarx The value of AI is that it (as a rented service) extracts value from any digital (intellectual) property for its owners. The users of AI are part of the labour to unearth even more digital properties and, with those efforts, expose themselves as another property to extract value.