Bishop_Owl [he/him, they/them] @ Bishop_Owl @hexbear.net Posts 1Comments 4Joined 3 wk. ago
Two hot takes:
Firstly, generative AI has valid use cases for accessibility and quality of life features, unfortunately they're completely overlooked in favor of the future hellscape dystopia we've been hurtling towards for a while now, where consumerism will be the only valid form of self expression, and your individuality will continue to be suppressed in favor of profits. (But somehow communism is the anti-individuality system?)
Second, it would be better for humanity if these things were sentient and hated organic life, than it is for these things to be completely unthinking, and their hatred for organic life is just a byproduct of the will of their creators, because then butlerian jihad would be the socially acceptable position. As it stands, these are a much more insidious, normalized threat that everyone will go along with until there's no one left to remember that we ever had a reason not to do this.
You have to be very diligent about checking these. You get nothing for a few days while the mice get comfortable with it being around, and then the moment you forget to check it is the moment it catches a mouse.
At this point you have about two days before it becomes just about the least humane thing you'll ever see in your life. I recommend setting a reminder on your phone.
If you don't have ADHD (like I do) or something similar however, this is a good solution. People will tell you "if you release it in the wild its as good as killing it." Personally I'd rather hand an owl or a snake it's lunch on a silver platter, than kill a living thing and throw it in the garbage.
Art ingratiates the proletariat to society, it is a ready means by which someone with nothing can impress themself upon the world in an unpredictable and humanizing way. This actively works against the fascist pillar of dehumanization.
Art helps us to understand eachother. This works against the fascist pillar of fear.
Art is the fundamental means by which human experience is expressed and explored. This works against the fascist pillar of suppression.
Fascists love AI art because it is fundamentally incapable of integrity or empathy, creative or otherwise.