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.<!— excerpt —> +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.<!-- excerpt --> 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.