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technology is not suppressible. we are not able to ignore it or stop it, it's useless to try and thwart the future of technological advancements. we have to shift our focus to monitoring and restricting what will happen. especially, we must pay attention to how we can proceed into the future with a sustainable output for the environment. if we spend more time advocating for that rather than the idealist impossible solution of ending AI for good, we can make everything in the near future much, much better.
when the Singularity comes, which it will, we can only soften the blow. we can only control the variables in our reach, if the effort is put into that. which it is not at the moment. sitting, whining, and expecting AI to just stop is effectively useless.
this is not pro-AI. this is pragmatic and realistic.
and with that, cyberfeminism has only a growing importance with technological advancements. AI and women are irrefutably woven together - we are not in "post-cyberfeminism," we just are yet to properly utilize it. we need to stop viewing technology as an inherent anti-female invention and rather maximize it's potential. women and technology have a largely ignored extensive history, and it is time that is put into motion.
“When computers were vast systems of transistors and valves which needed to be coaxed into action, it was women who turned them on. When computers became the miniaturized circuits of silicon chips, it was women who assembled them . . . when computers were virtually real machines, women wrote the software on which they ran. And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.”
― Sadie Plant
embrace the future! we cannot be the Luddites our parents were. every generation from every era has always rejected new technology in their lifetime, just like how boomers advocate against phones and TVs and seem to think social media is the antichrist. gen Z is no different in their fervent anti-AI bandwagon. this, again, is not me saying i support AI. pragmatism is not endorsement.
soften the blow when the bubble pops.
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Gabiota_Queso
I like your point of view! What do you think about the "Not Anti AI, I'm anti generative ai" position?
i think the boundaries between those are blurry and hard to really set a firm line between. plus, i think we need to find the root of *why* we are anti generative AI. the environment is a good one, but what happens in the instance eco-friendly data centers replace our existing ones and that is no longer a problem? it becomes a game of whack a mole. generative AI is absolutely terrifying, but a lot of the critiques for it fall flat when you think deeper about it. not that i support it, i find it horrifying, but i think we need to accustom ourselves to it, because it's never going to stop now, and we are better off focusing on what we can do to regulate what happens.
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