Propellant. — Ethan Marcotte

As it turns out, that “growth at any cost” mindset does have an incredibly high cost. Because what all this corporate flexibility means is that  —  in addition to all their other many failings  —  these “AI” platforms are machines of war and death. Anyone infuriated by the military-industrial complex should stop supporting them.

And I don’t just mean monetarily. It’s not lost on me that these commercial “AI” platforms improve by learning. Well, “learning” is too anthropomorphic a verb: these large language models analyze user input, and may be trained on the data we feed them. And as I’ve read about the opening days of this pointless, stupid, awful, horrifying war, I couldn’t help but think that the everyday use of these machines is quite literally enhancing them.