my post: masculinity is seen as neutral in male-dominated society because it benefits men to be seen as the default every single fucking tag and reblog: idk man i see masculinity as neutral so i don’t think it’s that deep
what bothers me about the "AI virginity" as something anyone would think is an okay term to use is that it just conjurs up someone cowering in fear of even interacting with a new technology. Even if we argue the "damage" angle I would argue that it is hypocritical to act like this and not think similarly about social media websites that have absolutely been part of some form of actual harm or another. It's just advanced lines of code, not a demon in a box. There's a difference between being opposed to something and creating a disturbingly cultish attitude around opposing it
That’s the worst thing. I think there is plenty to be said about AI and its effects on society and I’ve become a bit more skeptical even if I use it for my work (and I find it has lots of uses). But this moralism…
Imagine if people in the 80s or 90s criticized television “adiction” and said something like “it’s fine if you watched TV once but NEVER do it again”, or social media being treated like “virginity”, because even if that post was supposedly criticizing that, it STILL played by that same thinking! “I lost my (AI) virginity before being educated on how that was a bad thing but now I won’t do bad things anymore” that’s what a youth pastor would say!
And the fact is that one can criticize and even oppose “AI” without saying it’s something that immediately rots your brain and you’re evil for using it. I don’t like the overuse of social media for example, but I don’t think you will lose your mind just for having a tiktok account. I don’t think it’s healthy to talk to chatbots all day or that AI is good at most of what it does, but I don’t think a person who uses it for like, summarizing a paper or making a powerpoint is committing some irredeemable sin or losing their mind.
In fact the more that people adopt that attitude the less serious one can take conversations about AI because someone uses it for making a meme or to get info on a topic (like many, many people I know IRL) and doesn’t understand why people are raving about it like if it’s a demon. And there are major concerns about how it’s being pushed for an economic bubble, privacy concerns, decreasing quality of the internet experience…
I just want people to be normal about this: AI is a technology that exists, it is not going away, it is not fundamentally evil, some people find uses for it and that’s fine (even if it’s just entertainment), and we should be concerned about the general state of big tech rather than thinking this just began when ChatGPT appeared.
My opinion is not “pro-ai” or “anti-ai”, it’s “AI is a thing that exists”
Media where it is made explicitly clear that the hero cannot and should not kill the villain, but then kills the villain off anyways for reasons beyond the hero’s control in order to facilitate a happy ending, directly imply that death is a natural and deserved consequence of evil actions AND an acceptable resolution towards peace, which completely undermines the hero’s arguments otherwise.
Having the hero say “murder is wrong so I will not kill you” while the bad guy goes “your compassion is meaningless, I’ve learned nothing” only for a building to fall on the bad guy and kill him is cop-out fantasy fulfillment for those of us who in theory condone capital punishment but cannot reconcile it with our own self-image of the compassionate pacifist, and broadly represents our frustration that there are, in fact, conflicts that cannot be resolved by “good” people
TL/DR: “Hero too good the commit murder VS irredeemable bad guy who cannot be stopped until he is murdered” situations where the bad guy is taken out by a random deus ex machina are fucking boring UNLESS☝️as a poetic consequence of something either character themselves inadvertently put into motion
Which torture method used for political repression in your country’s recent history scares you the most? Which of these methods historically taught by the CIA to puppet governments in your continent haunts your nightmares?
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