diff --git a/src/posts/2024/of-course-ai-is-extractive-everything-is-lately.md b/src/posts/2024/of-course-ai-is-extractive-everything-is-lately.md index 58f44944..be488689 100644 --- a/src/posts/2024/of-course-ai-is-extractive-everything-is-lately.md +++ b/src/posts/2024/of-course-ai-is-extractive-everything-is-lately.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: 'Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately' description: "It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits. One of the easiest criticisms to lob at it is that it's extractive — whether you're pointing at public knowledge, creative work or resources and I think that's all quite fair. But it's not unique to AI and it's not particularly unique to the tech industry." tags: ['tech', 'AI'] --- -It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits. One of the easiest criticisms to lob at it is that it's extractive — whether you're pointing at public knowledge, creative work or resources and I think that's all quite fair. But it's not unique to AI and it's not particularly unique to the tech industry. +It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits. One of the easiest criticisms to lob at it is that it's extractive — whether you're pointing at public knowledge, creative work or resources and I think that's all quite fair. But it's not unique to AI and it's not particularly unique to the tech industry. We seem to, hopefully, be able to place crypto in the rearview mirror[^1]. It was similarly extractive of energy and funneled money from well-meaning personal investors and users to owners, investors and advocates that were already rich.