Here's where I return to the word tool and the concept behind it: a specific tool implies a specific use, and #genAI DOE...

Here's where I return to the word tool and the concept behind it: a specific tool implies a specific use, and #genAI DOES have specific uses. However, none of those uses has anything to do with computer programming or imitating Renaissance painters or indeed anything to do with how the end users of "generative #AI" plan to employ these universal slop-makers. Yes, #ChatGPT and #Claude and #Gemini and all the other manifestation of high-tech gibberish generation are indeed tools—not in the hands of the people using them, but in the hands of the people selling them. The corporate bosses who are trying to shackle all humanity to their hopped-up "artificial general intelligence" things have specific uses in mind, most notably the pretext to destroy all remaining expectations of privacy which a computer user might have. "AI training" is why ALL our software must now spy on its users and hoover up every spare bit of obtainable data, piping it into massive "data centers" and corporations and a...