2026-09-17 16:09 UTC
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe
Yes, that may be true in much of Western Europe and North America. In contrast, AI may feel disproportionately empowering in societies where colonialism and subsequent global capitalism have left expertise, "prestigious" languages, institutional knowledge, and professional assistance extremely unequally distributed. Try applying your take to Southeast Asian countries, where AI acceptance is towards the more optimistic end of the spectrum, and you can probably begin to see how cruel Western universalism can be.
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@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe 2026-09-17 18:01
@wrzky@kolektiva.social something about the master's tools vs the master's house springs to mind here Similarly, plenty of disabled people have good reason to use algorithmic prediction, text generation, & pattern recognition software to remove some difficulties from their everyday lives. Nevertheless, generative "AI" remains a machine built by capitalists to enclose humanity's knowledge commons just like the early capitalists enclosed our physical commons.