2025-12-21 23:54 UTC
So my own personal compromise is to use "AI" to mean "the anti-labor anti-art anti-environmental anti-human bullshit that capital owners are currently forcing down our throat and calling AI" and trust that folks can understand what I mean from that context. Perhaps that compromise isn't ideal, and perhaps that trust is sometimes misplaced, but it's the best spot I've found to land on "how the fuck do I communicate about this when the other side is being actively dishonest about what words mean?"
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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2025-12-21 23:57
The other piece of this, as I've pointed out elsewhere, is that AI boosters intentionally expand the term "AI" to include things that are perfectly sensible and reasonable to provide narrative cover, exactly the same way police do things like direct traffic to shield themselves from public critique. "Defund the police" doesn't mean "don't direct traffic around accidents," and "ethical AI doesn't exist" doesn't mean "stop doing linear regression."