Any tool can be a hammer if you use it wrong enough.
A good hammer is designed to be a hammer and only used like a hammer.
If you have a fancy new hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Some hammers use enough energy to power a small country in order to show you a cake recipe without an entire backstory and 50 ads.
This hammer does the same without using the energy of a small country https://theskullery.net
Welcome to capitalism.
AI is the new thing, so cramming it into a product increase funding and/or stock price.
Even if it hurts the product.
It’s more like Jefferson’s dumbwaiter, in that it was created by someone who verbally supported an egalitarian utopian vision of society, but the device itself is a scale model of an exploitative social system. At one station of the device, unpaid/low-paid labor operates out of view of the user, and then at the other station, the user enjoys an almost-magical appearance of an answer to their request.
No tool is “just a tool”, after all. In that way, AI is like a hammer.
(That section of the video leans heavily on Do Artifacts Have Politics?, which is a pretty short and accessible essay. If you’re not convinced that artifacts do have politics, and you don’t want to watch the video, just read a few paragraphs of the essay.)
Nope. It’s more like that weird thing you brought at 3 am off of the Home Shopping Network because you were in a really bad place and thought it would make you feel better.
Now it’s taking up space and you don’t want to throw it out because that would mean you’re a failure…
It’s not good at replacing your job, but good at convincing your boss that it can
