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How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out of the Enlightenment
How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out of the Enlightenment
If I was to rewrite the Wikipedia summary of the Enlightenment, my cynical side might just edit it to: An Age in whichEuropean men developed a high opinion of themselves as transcendent rational beings steering the chaos of irrational nature, women and the body. Look at 60s rock using electricity-powered tech to amplify the spirit of romanticism and the sexual revolution, before that innocence is shredded in the hard-edged 70s, and then gutted by record companies in the 80s with kitsch glam metal, which collapses under its hairspray as underground rap bubbles up through the streets. The offices were explicitly designed to be a play-pen for geeky adults, but this is the company whose various products lie behind vast political disorientation, teenage cyber-bullying, body-shaming, and far-right radicalization with real-world violent effects for actual communities.
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