2025-12-21 23:52 UTC
If I say "AI is unethical," someone can come along that redefine AI away from LLMs and GANs onto something where the ethics are more complex, then switch back once "ethical AI" is in the narrative.
So it's complex as hell to lock down "AI" as a term in a way that makes critique possible and meaningful. Maybe I could have said "Ethical LLMs, GANs, and related technologies are impossible." But then that's a lot of extra verbage to carry around, and also narrows my argument more than needed.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2025-12-21 23:54
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?"