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"AI" may be the future, but right now, in the present, it feels like rape.
I recently came across this post from a rape survivor that made exactly this comparison. It broke down all the parallels in between AI inevitability rhetoric and rape culture quite clearly: https://liberatedwriter.substack.com/p/ai-inevitability-acceptance-and-rape
It doesn't seem coincidental that "AI are the future" people heavily imply nobody should resist it.
Nah we know you’re free to resist it, we’re just telling you that resistance is futile and will only lead to you being left behind.
Some people didn’t think the internet was the future. The people telling them that it was and that they should get on board weren’t mean or nasty, they were trying to help people understand.
The people who think AI is going away are the people who didn’t think the internet would be a thing now.
citation needed.
For what exactly?
I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they'd be feeling betrayed rather than excited.
Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!
It's like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it's done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.
More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.