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but this was possible before LLMs. face matching and pattern detection dates back to the early 1990s.
there was a Israeli firm that offered similar services before Palantir existed, it just didn't get any press.
deskill like what was already happening due to outsourcing and intentional automation?
your talking about late-stage capitalism like we weren't seeing this coming in the 2000s. the moment that Microsoft got out of that antitrust lawsuit under bush spelt the end to independent technological growth and with it comes secular control that leads to what we see today.
openai and audacity are both perfect examples of when law makers choose to ignore corporate interests in destroying competition and setting presidence.
Apologies for the very late reply. For some reason I only got a notification about your reply now, probably some federation hickup or something.
Machine learning allows for a much more thorough analysis of all the massive datasets created by surveillance and government records etc.. That is new. The whole DOGE charade was most likely just a front to get those kids admin access to the IRS and healthcare databases so those could be scraped over to Palantir. There's also a reason that the Flock camera epidemic started now and not in the 90's and that's that now all that data can actually be used.
The deskilling via automation is now also applying to the last thing that was thought to be safe, human thought. The brain is a muscle, and like any muscle, it will atrophy if not used. A technology that allows people to use their brain less is a technology that will atrophy peoples brains. People being less capable is a bad thing for them and the class they represent. And then there's the fact that none of this is no longer contained to the workplace either. Kids using chatgpt to do their homework or parents outsourcing the responsibility of parenting (for example in the form of helping their kid to study for a test) to AI are also problems in the very same way.
The fact that late-stage capitalism is predictable isn't a counterargument to being critical of LLM's as a technology. Who did you think were going to be the primary architects of how that technology is used? If a mentally ill kid with a documented history of homicidal ideation shoots up a school, should we blame that kid, or the fact that somebody gave that kid a gun? "Guns don't kill people, people do" am I right? Personally I think that both share the blame, and that OP's claim that "“AI” is a tool to move towards labor post scarcity. That’s all that it is." overlooks that completely. Every tool is a weapon and every weapon is a tool.