aftermath | System Shock
By now you’re probably familiar with the long list of sins the tech industry is committing with the machine learning models it insists on calling “Artificial Intelligence.” These tools regularly hallucinate made-up nonsense, plagiarize peoples’ art, pollute the internet with disinformation and low-quality content-slop, use multiple cities worth of electricity, consume a preposterous amount of fresh water, and have also started to induce novel forms of psychosis in the people who use them. But beyond all this, perhaps the most maddening aspect of the AI trend is that it’s being forced on us.