A Please Against the Use of Generative AI
- Ro Salarian
- May 12
- 2 min read
I have been echoing over and over that generative AI is a tool of fascism. The fascists are currently trying to make it illegal to mess with the fascism machine so they can keep advancing their fascist agenda. Everything you have ever done will be fed into the machine and there will be nothing you can do about it.
https://www.404media.co/republicans-try-to-cram-ban-on-ai-regulation-into-budget-reconciliation-bill
The machine that is eliminating jobs by design as a feature, not a bug, so the fascist oligarchs can keep even more of their hoarded money. They are advertising AI by telling business owners they should stop hiring human beings.
The machine that is destroying the arts, which is especially horrible since generative AI is trained on the works of these artists without consent or compensation. Why engage with human-made art, when you can consume unchallenging propaganda? The machine is built on a concept of "Your body (of work), my choice."
The machine that is destroying the environment, sucking up vital resources and spitting out deadly pollution. It uses more energy than 117 entire countries. So much of the progress we've made towards green energy has been canceled out by the environmental impacts of AI data centers. They're reopening decommissioned nuclear power plants for this purpose.
The machine that is inhibiting our ability to tell reality from fiction, and in turn corrupting justice as deepfakes are entered into evidence in trials. Your solid alibi has to compete with a generated video of you committing the crime.
The machine that is destroying education and knowledge itself by presenting itself as objective and truthful when it's wrong more often than it's right. Why do your own work when you can use a machine to trick people into thinking you're knowledgeable? Now that you've given away all your critical thinking skills, the fascists will be right there to fill in the blanks.
The machine that is programmed by biased, fallible human beings who adore fascists like Musk. They created a machine and want you think it is without bias, so when the machine echoes their fascist thoughts, people are more willing to accept it as objective truth.
EVERY use of the fascist machine feeds the fascist machine. It's not innocuous. Its flaws are features, not bugs. In a very short amount of time, it has destroyed the critical thinking skills of everyone that uses it, replaced fact with fiction, hurt and even killed people, taken away their livelihoods, and polluted our planet. It's been around for half a decade and people have already let so much of their brains atrophy that they can't remember how they functioned without it. It has caused us to trust the wrong things, and be skeptical of reality. All of these things benefit the fascists and oligarchs while hurting the rest of us. If it hasn't hurt you yet, it's just a matter of time.
But yeah, I'm sure that Ghibli-esque profile pic was worth it, huh? 🙄
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