this is so perfect as a phrasing
"AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth." @mel_hogan
I also explain this and take pains to really hammer home this is NOT EVEN TRUE in science, more data is NOT a better theory or account!
this essay by @mel_hogan is the best writing ive seen on this issue. this is the framework we need. ive been waiting to read a version of this for a couple years now and am ecstatic that i came across it tonight. its so incisive and i feel more politically grounded than i have in years having read it.
the fediverse community desperately needs to read this - and is trying to avoid doing so - because it places all of the localized commentary of constant AI news stories buzzing around us in a larger context of the failure of the promise of the digital world. it cuts at the heart of our relationship to tech in a way that most people aren't yet ready to process.
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