😡 I Am An AI Hater
Generative AI has been sucking all the air out of the room for far too long, and I've been intentionally not posting about it. This piece, though, is just too good—too much of a mirror of my own thoughts and feelings—to not share.
It's hard not to quote the whole thing when something resonates so deeply, but the part below is a standout in a sea of standouts.
Anthony Moser:
I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money.
And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.
Yeah, just read the whole thing.