"AI" in the current hype cycle (LLM generative ML yada yada) is just classic capitalist industrial automation, applied to one of the few areas that still had echoes of the pre/proto-capitalist "craft economy"
Prepare, nerds, to be put through the same process as seamstresses, weavers, blacksmiths, lumberjacks, etc.
So much of what people identify as post-modern or late-stage or whatever is just the continuation of the same intrinsic process that has been happening since the end of the 18th century.
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"AI" in the current hype cycle (LLM generative ML yada yada) is just classic capitalist industrial automation, applied to one of the few areas that still had echoes of the pre/proto-capitalist "craft economy"
Prepare, nerds, to be put through the same process as seamstresses, weavers, blacksmiths, lumberjacks, etc.
So much of what people identify as post-modern or late-stage or whatever is just the continuation of the same intrinsic process that has been happening since the end of the 18th century.
All that is solid melts into air.