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[benji]

Read the room

The irony of their adoption of this phrase is that it's an expression that marginalized voices should be silenced lest they challenge the dominant culture. 

I think it's just class war tbh. Look at who is the most rage hard about it. Middle class professionals who work in creative industries. AI is a fundamental leveller. Then there is the downstream part of the grift. Once you've established yourself as a player in that game, you can do tutorials, write books, sell courses. 

AI means: Didn't go to art college and can't hire an artist? Doesn't matter, make what you can dream up by describing it in natural language. 

People like Nepenthe feel entitled to wealth and a creative position because they have undergone some kind of apotheosis and others haven't. Generative AI strips that away. The AI warriors in my field are genuine nutters, and they're all boojie american tech sorts with books and courses to sell.

I think their angry rantings are very disproportionate to most of their actual class positions. The doomers who aren't even in an artistic position or industry far outweigh the handful of industry ones that are complaining about it on there, especially successful ones. You see a far more diverse set of opinions even on there from people actually in relevant positions and awareness of a topic. I'm thinking mostly of gaming side but it happens in off-topic as well from time to time.