also and just in case you missed it - I'm 100% with #CoryDoctorow on this
(which is why I go and see him talk at #Carriageworks in August)
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11697445…
As a *technology*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's applications "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology:normaltech.ai/
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