Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? | Verso Books
"[T]he way technology changes work is neither automatic nor inevitable. It is shaped by collective choices about what kinds of work, and what kinds of working lives, society is willing to sustain."
How to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate • Buttondown
"We are not building people up by giving them helpful tools, we are tearing people down by convincing them they can’t function without the tools"
Artificial Intelligence - The Authors Guild
"We need to ensure that human creators are compensated, not just for the sake of the creators, but so our books and arts continue to reflect both our real and imagined experiences, open our minds, teach us new ways of thinking, and move us forward as a society, rather than rehash old ideas."
Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human - The Verge
"These AI jobs are [the] bizarro twin [of 'bullshit jobs']: work that people want to automate, and often think is already automated, yet still requires a human stand-in." [...] "When AI comes for your job, you may not lose it, but it might become more alien, more isolating, more tedious."
Interpretive Labor: Bridging the Gap Between Map and Territory
"because the needs of these groups are devalued, that struggle is largely seen as a tolerable sacrifice, as the system more or less working, rather than a warning sign that something's wrong."
Storming the Ivory Tower: The NFT's Aura, or, Why Is NFT Art So Ugly?
'The product being labored over for the contemporary artist of social media is not "the work of art" but "the gestalt experience of art-posting".'