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Not all AI-like software is evil garbage, not all software that learns about user behaviour is evil garbage, not all recommendation and behavioural monitoring software and services are evil garbage.
But all capitalist subsided for-profit AI-like recommendation software is always evil garbage without exception, 100% of the time.
If you're going to claim the opposite you will just have to show one single example of a successful capitalist such software or service.
But you can't, and you won't.
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@h To paraphrase Melvin Kranzberg, technology is neither good, nor bad, nor is it neutral.
Key criteria: who owns and controls it?
It’s “smart” tech so who’s getter smarter about whom? If it’s decentralised – the Ai, data gathering, etc., is happening on our devices and is accessible only to us – then we (individuals) are getting smarter about ourselves. That’s great. Compatible with democracy.
In surveillance capitalism, corporations get smarter about us. That’s feudal.
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