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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
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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LoneWick
@lonewick
It’s a tough issue. It’s been incredibly helpful in building things, creating structure, accelerating the ability to find rich information, deep research, refine ideas, and getting immediate personalized courses to learn almost anything. It’s extremely excited and gives superhuman abilities to thinkers and creatives. What do you do when others embrace this stuff and you stand on a hill against it? I suppose a slower lifestyle can be appealing, but it would be lonely. Of course, lots of repercussions to be aware of, and it’s good to have people like you keeping a critical eye. We should all maintain this position to a degree.
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
1/3 Life was too fast for me way before AI, so give me the slow lane every time :) Thanks for the considered reply. In the past I've stood up for AI projects, esp when poorly misrepresented from those blanket critics of AI who miss certain points of articulation in creativity. I found the Botto project, for example, very amusing in that it opened up old wounds about technical ability and prowess that have been argued about and resolved in traditional art circles decades ago. I have used AI to get a few automated tasks done but I find that using AI for creative tasks feels ultimately boring and empty, but that's just me. There is no tension in the process for the kind of things I am interested in, but again that is a very personal take.....
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Paul Prudence
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2/3 But more relevantly, the point of my original cast was not so much an anti-AI take but to highlight political issues of AI in the wider sense and that the ecology of AI fortifies old systems of control and domination. I think AI is ultimately at the service of the capital and may be the capitals ultimate product. But what concerns me more is how, at a top level, research that gets funnelled into military technology uses revenues gathered from (and technologies developed for) consumer level AI adoption. As James Tindal says: 'it should come as no surprise that the corporate cloud infrastructure and the suite of machine learning technologies that run upon it, for the identification of human targets for ads is —and has been for some time— the very same corporate cloud infrastructure and suite of machine learning technologies used for the identification of human targets for bombs' https://atomless.substack.com/p/engine-lines-killing-by-numbers
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