yes, but, it still allows people to do all those things.
And if the web destroyed the high street, it destroyed a valued community space.
I feel like I'm trying to defend AI, when actually I'm annoyed that many people who have built a career of destroying other people's livelihoods are using "it'll steal our jobs" as a rationale for attacking AI rather than it's destroying our planet and handing more power to the worst people on the planet.
Sasha
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2026-07-16 15:08:45 UTC
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