Possibly a Dog on Nostr: Big Tech is anti-technology. Musk and Zuck are anti-creative: their “next big ...
Big Tech is anti-technology.
Musk and Zuck are anti-creative: their “next big thing”s are boring parodies lifted from 25-year-old cyberpunk dystopian fiction.
Monopolies are anti-innovation.
Predictive/generative #AI is inherently conservative: its best idea of the future is a statistical average of the past.
_Frankenstein_, the first science fiction novel, is a Luddite parable. And we are all Luddites now (or should be).
This podcast is kinda long and kinda brutal but highly engaging and enraging and **optimistic** (really!), and everyone who can should listen to it, the sooner the better.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/enzittification-with-cory-doctorow-brian-203193589/
#AI #enshittification #tech
Musk and Zuck are anti-creative: their “next big thing”s are boring parodies lifted from 25-year-old cyberpunk dystopian fiction.
Monopolies are anti-innovation.
Predictive/generative #AI is inherently conservative: its best idea of the future is a statistical average of the past.
_Frankenstein_, the first science fiction novel, is a Luddite parable. And we are all Luddites now (or should be).
This podcast is kinda long and kinda brutal but highly engaging and enraging and **optimistic** (really!), and everyone who can should listen to it, the sooner the better.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/enzittification-with-cory-doctorow-brian-203193589/
#AI #enshittification #tech