AI and the Return of Creative Elitism
30th May 2023
There are many AI-related fears. It will send cars off cliffs. It will increase discrimination. It will lead to cultural insensitivity. The Japanese, for example, would prefer the trolley run over the child instead of the old person. Global corporations, NGOs, and administrative agencies are hijacking these fears in order to initiate regulatory capture and win a monopoly over Large Language Models like the one behind ChatGPT. They want to make you believe that they, and only they, can wrangle AGI before it turns us all into racist paperclips.
But perhaps the oldest and most persistent form of AI doomerism is “machines will take our jobs.” The current WGA strike, for example, is in-part aimed at the AI threat. Writers want studios to promise not to use ChatGPT for the bread-and-butter treatments, pitches, and drafts on which they make a living. They don’t want to be disrupted out of existence like the steel worker and the cab driver, and they’re right to worry. Studios are globalist corporations after all, of the same ilk that showed themselves happy to delete towns, cities, and even entire states under globalization. A certain species of Davos goon does not care at all about job loss when it’s happening to unpeople in the rube states. The Rust Belt looks like Syria for a reason.
However, where the previous labor nuke decimated the white working class in flyover states, this one will explode closer to the power center of Corporate America. Creative AIs like ChatGPT most threaten one of the Regime’s most powerful assets: the managerial class.