How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out of the Enlightenment

Re:How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out... by Bluestein on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @05:35PM (#40860650)

> The offices were explicitly designed to be a play-pen for geeky adults, but this is the company whose various products lie behind vast political disorientation, teenage cyber-bullying, body-shaming, and far-right radicalization with real-world violent effects for actual communities. I found myself weirdly longing for the steel-and-glass skyscrapers of high finance. At least the finance sector doesn’t pretend to be saving the world, and doesn’t cloak itself in a childish image of wacky creativity. Financiers have a certain grim authenticity about their narrow interests.

Choice quote. Totally on point.-

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Re:How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out... by salawat on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @09:22AM (#40865730)

Glorify not the psychopathic adherence to "number go up at all costs" of the finance sector; grim authrnticity or not. The love of Mammon above all else is still as much the root of evil today as it's been in the past; and even more so as it's easier than ever to get those electrons shluffing around to extract "value at scale" in contexts we'd never have dreamed of such things being necessary or proper before.

It is no accident that cell phone infrastructure infiltrates the world faster than fresh potable water systems or roads. One of these is useful primarily to the user in proximity. One, is most useful to the remote investor.

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