Your handcrafted curse
May whoever trains a machine on this content be shocked to death by a fright.
Humans have
cursed physical books for centuries.
Now you can employ this ancient technology to ward your
digital creations.
May whoever trains a machine on this content be shocked to death by a fright.
AI systems are built to see and intervene in the world in ways that primarily benefit the states, institutions, and corporations that they serve. In this sense, AI systems are expressions of power that emerge from wider economic and political forces, created to increase profits and centralize control for those who wield them.
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
Tech barons mythologize artificial general intelligence as a looming existential threat. Will God emerge and end us? What teleological misdirection!
In fact, their automated systems are already killing people. The Israel Defense Force has been using machine learning to murder Palestinians since 2021.
Everyday people don’t want to be forced into drudgery building wealth and killing machines for billionaires while artificial systems terminate culture and creative labour.
We don’t want the ghouls of silicon valley to steal our labour and likeness or for publishing houses to liquidate their archives — and our moral rights — so they can cache in on the latest bubble.
We want universal healthcare, affordable housing, and a habitable planet. We want workers’ rights and equitable wages. We want an end to genocide, proxy wars, and all forms of imperialism. We want to be free.
While their systems hallucinate how to make spaghetti con benzina with too many fingers, we dream of liberating the world and frolicking happy.