I will fight AI for all the other reasons but this one is the most anti-human, the most evil, and the one that I take the most personally: "The imagination economy’s goal is to replace creating, daydreaming, wondering, thinking, and trying with prompting a machine."

https://buttondown.com/lizziewade/archive/the-imagination-economy/

The imagination economy

Commodify, alienate, repeat

The Lizzie Wade Weekly

"Turning ourselves into “appendage[s] of the machine”...will only alienate us further... And then the same people who already profit off our labor and attention will have us where they want us—incapable of imagining, let alone fighting for, a better world."

https://buttondown.com/lizziewade/archive/the-imagination-economy/

The imagination economy

Commodify, alienate, repeat

The Lizzie Wade Weekly