TWIG 774: My AI Fiancé

Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…

What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!

We have the blackberry problem in Oregon, too. It’s free blackberries, yes, but the vines (which are very thorny and very strong) never stop growing.

They never stop…

You let one get started, it’ll take over your yard and then keep going. And they have underground offshoots that will pop up ten feet away from the original when you think you’ve got the original under control. They’ll be sneaking around under your yard forever.

I’m trying to understand the heck Mikah and Jeff are trying to say. It’s like they don’t seem to understand why people are upset. Look if they were artists and saw their jobs dry up they wouldn’t be sitting there making blanket statements about “taking control of it”, yeah I know artists that can produce work of higher quality faster than AI, they’re still losing jobs to AI. There is no controlling it. So what the hell are creative people supposed to do at this point, if not fight?

Every time they make these arguments on this show, either Leo, or, now apparently Mikah, they never mention WTF creative people are supposed to do, tell us if you seem to know and speak with such confidence about “creative people” and take sides of CTO’s that seem to believe that despite not doing a lick of creative in their life they somehow can dictate what jobs they can create or destroy.

This show has become a mouthpiece for the technocrats who I’m sure love listening to these types of arguments, as they sit there and scoop up free labor from creative people and sell a product, whose only selling point is to detonate entire sectors of jobs.

Calling people luddites is so reductive that literally is just further corporate propaganda that’s used to by AI boosters to try and silence people.

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