"And AI is not new, in this regard. The flattening of all pains into a total loss of pain has previously been the job of recreational drug use or theology. So AI is therefore more like an opiate than anything else. Or perhaps, given the fervor of its modern supplicants, it is more like a religion on drugs.
Modern automation of everything, including art, thinking, and writing, numbs who we are. Total automation softens our ability to discern between struggle that makes and pain that takes."
https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
@tante This is exactly the same kind of fetishism that I mentioned here: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117184636563514174. All technologies can be adapted in the sense that no technology has an intrinsic/deterministic nature. They're not given by gods. All technologies are tools in the sense that they can - or at least should be - shaped by all human beings that use them. So, for me this kind of argument leads to a dead-end where you really give too much importance to the current specific affordances and limitations of a tool and completely ignore how different groups of human beings made of flesh and blood end up shaping these tools.