a major reason AI/machine learning/LLMs is not technologically or politico-economically equivalent to past automation is that it is impossible without vast, vast, vast amounts of stolen labor.
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if you had told me at some point in my career that everything i was doing would someday be used to make me unemployable at the age of 45, i would have stopped fucking doing it. it turns out, i wasn't getting paid enough to do that work because my career would end right when i hit middle age. they fucking stole my labor, the labor of millions of us, used it to replace us, and are pretending they came up with a technological solution all thanks to their big brains.
bull fucking shit.
they didn't invent a machine that could write. their machine wouldn't work without all the millions of hours of labor put into the "data." they **stole our work** and are leasing it back to our employers at fractions of a cent of what we used to get paid.
i spent 20yrs writing and translating professionally. when i worked for publications, each article went through 2-3 editors. when i translated, each translation went through a reviser and editor. the AI companies now call it "data" but proper grammar, elegant analogy, clear word choice, proper spelling, and correct punctuation didn't just **happen**, we fucking did it. it was work, done by a **lot** of people who are now unemployed.