Fairy Dust and Toxic Waste: Against the Spectacle of "Artificial Intelligence" and the World it Serves
"As I said at the outset, my intent with this piece is to light a beacon, send up a signal flair that there exists at least one other who looks out into the world and abhors what they see. I do, to my core, believe that the mass adoption of LLMs and the violence inherent to that mass adoption is not inevitable. So long as there exist those of us who refuse this world of death machines there will be a struggle against the tools and systems that maintain and reproduce that world. So long as that struggle continues nothing is inevitable."
