@jenniferplusplus the barrier to access is *publishing,* not the writing process. academic privilege and cronies with connections are not fixed by AI. the bland cowardice of corporate publishers is not fixed by AI. this is yet another example of corporations abusing the language of social justice to benefit themselves. god knows why anyone still falls for it.
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I don't accept the premise that there is a harmful class bias in opposing gen AI. This argument presumes both that the writing of working class and marginalized people is less valuable unless it matches the style of wealthy people, and that they cannot... -
I don't accept the premise that there is a harmful class bias in opposing gen AI. This argument presumes both that the writing of working class and marginalized people is less valuable unless it matches the style of wealthy people, and that they cannot...@jenniferplusplus nobody worth taking seriously believes that marginalized people need AI to write. 'For ten and sixpence one can buy paper enough to write all the plays of Shakespeare...The cheapness of writing paper is, of course, the reason why women have succeeded as writers before they have succeeded in the other professions.'
non-academics throughout history have remade literature to their liking & changed the art for the better. to discount their capabilities is condescending & insulting
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I think one of the hard things about fedi, culturally, is that a whole lot (most??) of us are here because we are refusers of norms.@fifilamoura @kissane what these people don't realize is that if the majority of humans fail your minimum standards of being a Good Person, you end up hating the human race - and your activism is no longer rooted in compassion, but contempt for the impure.
you can't claim to care about humanity while despising almost all of it. there has to be room for forgiveness of human failure.
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I think one of the hard things about fedi, culturally, is that a whole lot (most??) of us are here because we are refusers of norms.@fifilamoura @kissane no doubt there are many things going on. but i think contemporary culture has brought out aspects of activism that are hyper-individualistic rather than community-focused - you see people performing these self-improvement projects like changing their diets, altering their vocabularies, and displaying only the correct opinions on social media, using an abstinence-based approach to becoming a Good Person. but with purity comes contempt for the people who fail those standards.