Mastodawn

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?

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Tyla (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.

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Crystal Huff (they/them)1d ago

@FinalGirl wow, that completely resonates. We're under such deluge that it feels like an emergency, too, imo.

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IHateFireworks

@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.