>>26833901. leftists are, demographically, high cultural capital workers who read. the primary practical products of AI at the moment are slop images/videos and bad prose. "why don't people who read like bad-but-not-bad-enough-to-be-fun writing?" gee, i don't know. it must be because they're all bourgeois.
2. the idea that current consumer-facing AI technologies are important for building socialism is nonsense. combine chatGPT with 3D printers and you get… fucking nothing. the technology simply does not work that way, and even if we handwave away making it work that way in future, you can't expect people to love a technology that doesn't exist yet on the basis that a sort-of-adjacent but annoying technology exists.
3. AI is aggressively forced by companies on users who don't want it. Is laptops coming with a button to launch Microsoft Copilot bringing about the material conditions for Socialism? The basic fact that users don't particularly care to use AI, and when they do, they don't particularly care to
pay to do so really leaves you with two options: either everyone else - not just twitter furry pornographers - is wrong, or it really is just a very expensive toy.
>>2683393while people worry about this, if they understood the dynamics of the world they were in, they wouldn't care. cultural goods derive their value from the social status of their producers and consumers, not from their mere existence. e.g. you commission the $3000 furry artist
because he's the $3000 furry artist, not because his art is any better than an imitator who'll do it for $50. you commission me for $5
because you like the cut of my jib not because you couldn't find someone better.
a much bigger threat is gallery sites and image searches being filled up with slop, but most already have policies against that or filters.