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Ben Higbie Dec 31, 2023

moss Dec 31, 2023

@BenHigbie image description: a tweet by chuck_wendig that says

"The allure of AI entices those people who fetishize ideas but dismiss the work. They're the people who tell writers, "I'll give you the idea, then you write it, and we'll split the profits." For them, the vision is everything, and the work is just an annoying obstacle. But the WORK is everything. The work is how a thing happens, where it's made, where skill is put to work. AI in creativity is for the people who have no skill, no work, no effort, no ethic.

They just want to push a button."

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moss

@BenHigbie this seems reminiscent of the whole idea that CEOs and the like somehow deserve to take most of the value from work that other people do. like the concept that because you came up with the idea of the business, you deserve the profits from it, even if you aren't doing the work to make it happen. the nightmare that AI is being used for is a natural extension of the kind of capitalist mindset that's been around since the gilded age at least