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What has surfaced for me recently on the topic of genAI is how detrimental its reinforcing of individualism is. Of course it interconnects with the countless other issues, and it sits nicely in a continuum of capitalism making humans more selfish, less connected, cooped up at home while entertaining the illusion of independence. But it keeps coming up: it's touted as the everything-tool that saves you asking for help. I breaks communication by people deceiving people.
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At a time when we need more collectivism and direct person-to-person communication, finding common ground and joining forces against the death cults that rule us, we are forced in various ways ("productivity", time constraints, enshittification of search...) to start using and then rely on proprietary tools that suck up our questions, worries, ideas, musings. They flood the Internet with slop to the point where slow, personal, unique digital creations are nearly impossible to find.
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And so I'm worried of further breakdown of human communication and connection.
There's the idea that maybe things getting worse in the digital space will mean a welcome return to more meatspace action. But I don't like the idea of giving up on a medium where we can create, and have been creating, in meaningful, deeply human ways. And abandoning it to further exploitation.
Anyway, I have to clean up the house and maybe do something meatspacey with the kids instead of doomglooming on fedi.
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It makes us suspicious of everything. In software development, it creates unwieldy projects that only make sense to the tool that farted it out (and maybe to the user who prompted the farting). Projects that are less likely to invite collaboration, organic conversations, a process that you collectively feel proud of and feel ownership over. I see it as birthing an era of disposable software, created minutes, then left to rot with no one interested in digging into it (bar LLM ouroboroi).
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