"Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown"

Even CNN is slowly starting to get it.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence

It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.

This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

Here's the thing. When a browser, an app, or a website encourages you to turn on an awesome feature, it's almost always because a lawyer who understands the feature said "whoa, we're gonna be in real trouble if we don't have consent".

In other words,

Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after attackers gained unauthorized access to a maintainer account, in the latest open-source supply-chain attack to roil the Internet.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/03/supply-chain-attack-exposing-credentials-affects-23k-users-of-tj-actions/