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Clemency
@Clemency

When I lived in Vietnam during the war, it was difficult to see our way through that dark and heavy time. It seemed like the destruction would just go on and on forever. Every day people would ask me if I thought the war would end soon. It was very difficult to answer, because there was no end in sight. But I knew if I said, “I don’t know,” that would only water their seeds of despair. So when people asked me that question, I replied, “Everything is impermanent, even war. It will end some day.”

Thich Nhat Hanh - No Mud, No Lotus



mcc
@mcc

So there was this established scene of personally crafted, artistic bots. This scene is being forcibly terminated by capital. (Or shuffled to Mastodon, at least, which is fine from my perspective but definitely reduces their reach.)

and at the exact same time, ChatGPT et al are bringing a new generation of corporate-sponsored, vaguely oppressive bot interactions into our lives (strictly-controlled by the model-"owning" corporation, often passed off as the work of actual humans, built on a mix of exploitation of low-paid labor & unpaid commercial expropriation of other people's copyrighted work).

So there was a human-scale version of the thing that brought joy, and an impersonal-scale version of the thing that brings misery, and the first is being shut down at the same time the second is being introduced into our lives borderline by force, and these two things aren't being done by the same wing of capital or for linked reasons but they're both being done by capital and somehow it lined up that they're happening simultaneously