Ever worth remembering we were never asked how much we wanted "AI" in our lives, if at all, and to what extent.
Instead we find ourselves thankful for opportunities to opt-out, forgetting all the while there was no opt-in.
It's not the '2nd industrial revolution'. It's just more imperialism.
Citing fringe cases of self-hosted, non-thieving, ethically-sourced LLMs and 'genAI' as a 50:50 counterpoint "but not all AI is bad" does not speak to the global scale and scope of this tech feudalist/imperialist project. It is community garden vs big agriculture scale of difference. It is all about power, capture, control.
Look too closely at the tool and you will not see the hand that holds it, nor that it is a weapon.
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