@benroyce @jscholes @matt I think there are several factors that are (sometimes deliberately) conflated when it comes to...

@benroyce @jscholes @matt I think there are several factors that are (sometimes deliberately) conflated when it comes to the “AI” discussion. When we talk about “AI” in popular conversation today, I think we are basically always talking about the Oligarch AI machinery. I agree that protein-folding ML-style AI are awesome use cases, but they’re often only thrown in the conversation to confuse the matter and legitimize Oligarch #AI.Accessibility is one use case I admit I’m struggling with. On the one hand, I would never condemn this use case, even if it uses Oligarch AI. On the other, it is also often used as a cudgel to legitimize the entirety of Oligarch AI, which I fully reject.In popular discussion though, “accessibility” is almost *never* the topic at hand when people are discussing “AI”, for better or for worse; and often, when the topic comes up, it’s sadly only as a talking point to justify someone’s *other* uses of slop generation.