My interpretation is that, in current circumstances, cruelty is the principal way to enforce hierarchy. But, I might have to give up on trying to understand US politics because the differences between the two parties are shrinking.
The article mainly appeals to me because of I’ve seen some people claiming that hate towards AI art is “reactionary,” when the exact opposite seems to be true when you think about the overall context of the technology. A pretty reasonable argument in favor of this is that human artists sometimes have their work called AI slop, simply because their works were scraped and people recognize some similarities in style. The obvious rebuttal is that this is victim blaming. AI models plagiarize, and misinforms people with the unfortunate side effect of sowing division between us.
Huge agree on the object/meta discourse. It’s way more important to talk about specific values than use that binary way of thinking.
There are links to images. The author correctly assumes that there’s no reason to insert examples since they are so easily found.