Raw LLM Responses

I have no interest in defending this organization or any tech billionaire/corporation-associated anything. However, I do think it’s crucial that we don’t default to a weird anti-technology position as I’ve seen quite a lot of people do. The problem is not the tool/technology. The problem is not the existence of AI (which indeed DOES have the potential to play a role in the creation of a massive diversity of really powerful tools that absolutely could be implemented in a way that would free human beings up from most undesirable labor; that could enable people with disabilities to realize creative visions they otherwise would be unable to; that can enhance creatives’ productivity (there are plenty of useful AI-enabled tools on Photoshop or Blender or all kinds of other programs that stop short of just having the computer make all the creative decisions for you), & so on. It’s a mistake to demonize technology & to throw the baby out with the bathwater on this front, & reductionistically placing all the blame onto AI itself, period (or automation robots, period, etc.) actually does serve the capitalist class, because it allows people to distract AWAY from the central role CAPITALISM plays in the actual problems that creative workers & other workers across the board are suffering right now, just the same way any of the scapegoats they employ do (even if it’s not as immediately harmful as scapegoating actual human beings). The real problem is *the way capitalists implement new productive technologies, under capitalism*. AI & robotics only stand out because they are SUCH powerful productive technologies & applicable in SUCH a diversity of scenarios that capitalists implementing them in the way that’s most profitable to them (by using them to REPLACE human workers & avoid paying for labor) threatens far more people’s jobs than the introduction of the cotton gin, or the plow, or what have you. But the problem is fundamentally the same, at a larger scale. The actual problem is living under a class hierarchy (which is fundamentally incompatible with the degree of technological advancement we’re reaching), in which the capitalists own the productive technologies & workers do not, & workers are desperate for scarce jobs provided by the capitalists, & have had their wages suppressed to such an extent that for a single individual to survive they basically have to work 60-80+ hour weeks— as much as TWO people’s worth of full-time work, just to barely meet the cost of living, if that. Capitalists are using this technology to maximize profits by eliminating the need to pay human workers (in an environment where they’ve already shredded the social safety net, so those without jobs are screwed) & using the mass un/underemployment crisis this is creating as leverage to crush unions & “discipline” labor, driving wages down even further. However, that’s all a problem stemming from the capitalist class divide— not the existence of powerful productive technologies. If we abolished capitalism, we could be implementing these technologies in ways where we would all receive our share of the benefits, improving the livelihoods we would earn dramatically, driving down the hours of work it would take to meet the cost of living (we’d be able to provide for everyone’s basic needs, a high standard of living above & beyond them, & to enable people to work very short hours for that high standard of living… We could use these technologies for rational purposes, to help us address the systemic crises that threaten our survival… They should not be a bad thing, & are not inherently. The problem is JUST how they’re implemented by a ruling class motivated singularly by profit above all else.