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Aside from a very few (mostly conceptual works of art) I am unapologetically pessimistic about the role of AI in art and in society in general. There I said it. I will not bore you with my list of negatives right here but at the very least consumer level AI *is* just the entertainment division of the military industrial complex (to paraphrase F. Zappa) Critical tracts dissecting intelligent artificiality and the 'tech arms race ' excite me and this one by Karen Hao looks promising. Arriving in May 'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire. Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)
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.....The empires of AI may not be engaged in the same overt violence and brutality. But they, too, seize & extract resources, from the personal data of billions of people online to the land, energy, and water required to house and run massive data centers They, too, exploit the labor of people globally, from the artists and writers whose work they turned into training data without consent or compensation to the data workers globally who clean and prepare that data for spinning into AI models They, too, seek to justify these ever-mounting social, political, and environmental costs with ever-more outlandish promises about the boundless progress that AI will bring to humanity.... quoted from > https://x.com/_KarenHao/status/1904851987042361366
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