This week McKinsey released a report on the “economic potential of generative AI,” which, as the New York Times summed it up in a headline, apparently amounts to “$4.4 trillion in value to global economy.” Tech reporter Jacob Silverman was quick to note
That is, LLMs are an innovation that reprivatizes public space. It creatively destroys the organization of information that the internet had once facilitated, back before it had come to depend on the environment of manipulation and deceit that characterizes advertising
This is such a dumb dumb, anti-intellectual take.
You seriously can't just apply marxist labor theory of value to everything - this is why left politics has been in the dumps for the best part of 40 years. The world has changed a lot since the Fordist factory model of production, yet left theory square peg round holes it's understanding of the modern world.
This article makes ONE point, over and over again, rehashed and repeated in different contemptuous guises.
That is, LLMs are an innovation that reprivatizes public space. It creatively destroys the organization of information that the internet had once facilitated, back before it had come to depend on the environment of manipulation and deceit that characterizes advertising
This is such a dumb dumb, anti-intellectual take.
You seriously can't just apply marxist labor theory of value to everything - this is why left politics has been in the dumps for the best part of 40 years. The world has changed a lot since the Fordist factory model of production, yet left theory square peg round holes it's understanding of the modern world.
This article makes ONE point, over and over again, rehashed and repeated in different contemptuous guises.
C'mon bro!!!