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A thoughtful essay by Rob Horning on how tech companies view human processing as mere impediment to output:
"As with Facebook’s data collection on material before it was posted, AI-assistance intervenes before you’ve finished thinking your way through something and claims it as significant data. The documents aren’t ever really blank; they are always wired for microsecond-by-microsecond surveillance of your interactions with them."
@MLClark
Here’s the money shot:
“The [AI] assistant is not a means to your end so much as a way of making you a means to the company’s end: to restrict your thinking to the formulas it provides while assimilating any novel modes of thinking you might persist in exhibiting.”
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