@jalcine there are things in here that are directionally Not Even Wrong, but it still all falls into the category of “we need better AI criticism”. Everybody is talking past each other and punching straw men. Stupid.
I mean, I have to ask here: what does good AI criticism look like? I've taken a shot at writing a bunch, but it feels as though the moment I stumble across something decent ("AI proponents are largely dumbfucks playing status games, so what they say about the technical guts of it is suspect at best"), it winds up being labelled as too much of a humanities thing and thrown out on those grounds.