Large Format Projectionist#BennJordan has an excellent hypothesis on yootoob using Marx's definition of abstract and concrete work. tl;dr- to follow
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Concrete work is already successfully exploited by corporate-persons in capitalism. It's what you're paid to do.
Abstract work is the stuff you do for you, and usually, pretty well. This is barely exploited in things like paid time for personal projects in hope they yield the Next Big Thing.
#AI 's big success is in *directing* abstract work to exploitable outlets or channels. Suggesting, hinting, autocompleting your weird <whatever> toward an average that corporate-persons can put a toll booth.
EG: "crafting" used to be found-stuff and locally-sourced. Visit a yarn shop, stationary store, and big box hardware store to put together you're own bound album of photos.
Now, Amazon can widen the spheres of their various products to put you solidly in their store, no matter how weird your search was. Suddenly, anything that smells like "crafting" has 1000 "hits" on the Big A.
Some fall for it, and stay there, some are too tired to go elsewhere, either way, A gets their money.
I haven't heard a single person ID any profit to be made from AI, and Benn is positing an ROI that is paying off right fucking NOW.
Is it worth it? Hell no, all the "Externalized costs" are far greater than any worth generated.
Is Jordan right? Dunno. He has citations. He sounds plausible and confident, but we have dumb machines and an entire political party that can do the same trick.
The interesting bit is, if he IS right, he's proposing a money-making ability for AI that I've heard absolutely no one else say.
I'm going to ask #MysteryAIHypeTheater3000Pod