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This was a joke, but a handful of people expressed genuine interest in reading a book that bashes oligarchs and AI, just for the sake of it.

I'm heavily anti-AI. So much so, I'm pretty sure this is why my Instagram and Threads account got zapped out of existence. Meta couldn't handle the heat every single time they posted some slop-positive buzz on their official accounts, I don't know ...

But, I run my entire website behind Anubis, and I dropped Windows completely over their introduction of spyware into their malware OS. I'm not unfamiliar with AI, I've used it. I've given it a whirl. It's a bunch of garbage built on the backs of anyone whose ever done even an ounce of creative or skilled, written work. Be it code, a personal blog, or even fiction.

And it's getting worse. Every day I see more and more people embracing generative slop, either for fun, or for a social media avatar, or "because anti-AI people are annoying." It's like a virus, a pandemic. A pandemic that's evaporating fresh water, and melting the icecaps.

The fascist elites wanted a way to extract our labor, and pilfer our pockets, and with these so-called "tools" every facet of what we call "the Arts" are being destroyed, along with the world we live in.

Search Google images, scroll through Reddit, and just look at what your parents are consuming on Facebook. This is an emergency, and patient zero has a name: Sam Altman.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There's already decent scholarship in this area. One such book is the recent "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want", by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna. I haven't read it yet, but I've heard good things about it and it's high on my reading list.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Probably not? Reading 300 pages of unfocused ranting doesn't sound like fun even if I agree with the "message"

I'd read about the rise of oligarchy in the US but that doesn't seem like what this would be

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, but also please look up what cyberpunk dystopian novel they took the idea for the art generator!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Write a bunch of short stories where each story takes a different look on why ai is bad, where the characters go through a problem and fix it by removing ai.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There are a good few Isaac Asimov books like this.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I smell a new season of Black Mirror

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

You’d love Cory Doctorow - warning you’ll need to actually read the book, no film or series adaptation.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh I’m a big fan of him. Currently reading through all his books.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Hell yeah, maybe throw in that palantir-dude also? I loathe AI-generated content, so much so that I deleted all my Meta accounts (incl. Whatsapp, which lasted in use the longest) and the content therein, and also all of my published music from youtube just out of disgust. I absolutely hate everything about it, and that was one of the driving forces behind my eventual communist "radicalization". But yeah, I think I'd read and share that among friends!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I don't know if I'd read the book as described.

I would read a well thought book which would focus not just on Altman, but on his contemporary ai developers. Sam is a very public figurehead, but there are other AI tools out there and they get a lot of use, in particular the image generation ones.

I would also read a book which criticized AI from more perspectives than just capitalism and oligarchs screwing us. I mean don't get me wrong that's a very important point but it's not the only one and I want my rainbow complete.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you think killing top management personnel is the solution you will be surprised how many wait in line, claiming they‘re different.

And shareholders will go for them!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's supposed to be eye-catching in order to make people pick it up and read it, that's book marketing 101. But also? Fuck Sam Altman

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