Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)

So, I’ve been thinking a lot about AI and I keep coming back to Toni Morrison’s A Humanist View quote:

"It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again your reason for being…There will always be one more thing."

Here’s the thing I keep wondering: “What if the point is not that AI could do things well, but that it never will do things we can trust? What if that’s the point?”

What if AI is not only “One-More-Thing-as-a-Service,” but it is MEANT to be that?

Mar 20 at 2:18amWeb
Show threadTyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)1d ago

Because it feels like it keeps making us explain over and over our reason for being.

Artists have to explain that it’s not art just because you can generate content without emotion and discomfort.

Writer’s have to explain that it’s not storytelling just because there is content that follows rules without critically exploring the human condition.

Software developers keep having to spend time on code generated in seconds that then needs 10x time to understand and 100x time to debug.

We’re all just spending our energy on one more thing, but it’s automated and shoved down our throats so much we can’t even find the distinction between content and emotion.

Show threadCrystal Huff (they/them)1d ago
@FinalGirl wow, that completely resonates. We're under such deluge that it feels like an emergency, too, imo.
Show threadIHateFireworks23h ago

@crystalvisits @FinalGirl

Yeah, that makes so much sense.

Especially seeing how strategic Trump was in tiring everybody out during his first term. This is the corporate equivalent, aiming to get us too tired to object.

Show threadRanja ١٣١٢21h ago

@FinalGirl
It is exactly why I keep calling it a false god. It was created by those who seek power, the false prophets, to rob us of our divine reason for existing. To them we, people with a shimmer of love in their hearts, are obsolete. A problem to be dealt with.

It is an attempt to colonize our souls.

Show threadMarcus "MajorLinux" Summers11h ago

@FinalGirl But I'll posit that the tasks that people are using it for aren't the ones its supposed to be used for.

Under a better society, we would have time to create.

Capitalists want us working so they have these systems used to create so we continue to toil.

However, if these tools are used for mundane tasks that don't need supervision, then we'd free our time to actually create.

I feel a lot of people are focused on the wrong thing.

Show threadDying World 🔥🌎🔥22h ago

@FinalGirl This is a great post and gets to the core of why we're being pushed so hard to adopt "AI" everywhere.

Nothing about outsourcing our cognitive and creative processes to machines will make our lives better. Nothing. They want us dumber and dependent on these services for every aspect of our lives. It's the opposite of empowerment.

It's frightening how some individuals are so eager for us to abandon the very things that make us human.