Why We Hate AI

Why do we hate AI? It feels emotionally obvious. It's because it's an affront to humanity and our ways of expression; but this is not a way of explaining why, it's just a form of lashing out. I get it, I want to lash out too. But a human/inhuman distinction is a miserable tool to begin throwing around in our ranks. It feels legally obvious. It's because it's intellectual property theft on an obscene scale; but law is something that is carved and grown as needed by forces of power. Most power in the western world is held in Capital, therefore law is sown and reaped by Capital at its own whims. Rarely do we get to slice back, and the structure of law being under the thumb of Capital means those slices at best return an individual-sized windfall. A windfall is not revolution. Intellectual Property as a legal framework was sown by Capital and it will be reaped only as far back as Capital needs it to be, not so much so that we all benefit. It feels materially obvious, this one is far less…