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.
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
Yes, but also please look up what cyberpunk dystopian novel they took the idea for the art generator!
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.
There are a good few Isaac Asimov books like this.
I smell a new season of Black Mirror
You’d love Cory Doctorow - warning you’ll need to actually read the book, no film or series adaptation.
Oh I’m a big fan of him. Currently reading through all his books.
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!
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.
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!
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
Fuck AI
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