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Our commercial collectives engage in data fracking. If that rather apt metaphor does not suit you, then think of me and yourself as data-cows.

You and I are being milked, or being prepped to have sliced off, the juiciest of data cuts. It is the new gig economy: you pay to work & provide exponentially-growing mountains of data fat.

This last metaphor is one that actually keeps on giving. Different from our bovine friends, our digital “self” is infinitely reappropriated, or if you prefer: misappropriated.

This data misappropriation allows for disenfranchisement, muted by the mesmerizing affect of demoncratization of generative AI. It demands synthetic sympathy. Smile, you can now prompt any synthetic reality.

What people think to know, is gift-wrapped with the synthetic real of their own making. Revel people. The ether is thundering with “awe” and “awesome.” We silence any dissent with inundation. We silence self with copies of a synthetic self, with mirror images of reflective mirages.

Metaphors are anchored in the poetics of human shared experiences. A simulacrum is as an unhinged metaphor. A generative piece of content can, as such, function as an unhinged metaphor. It entices to refer yet, it leads the way to a referencing of a saturated nowhere.

Our praised synthesized misinformation becomes acceptable in the authoritativeness of its aspired high definition perfection.

If ever a version of postmodernism is alive, it is now. Live in Bliss and prompt a smile.

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      —animasuri’23 

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aipoetics #ai #aiunethics #aiethics #poem

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Trigger

https://lnkd.in/dnMbej-b

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References

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Stephen E. Rahko, Byron B Craig. (2021). Uprooting Uber. From “Data Fracking” to Data Commons. IN: Brian Dolber, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Todd Wolfso (eds.). (2021). The Gig Economy. Routledge. eBook ISBN 9781003140054.

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https://lnkd.in/dinnnc6F Thank you Michael Robbins, FRSA for reminding us of the social bedrock and the fracking thereof. Thank you, Prof. Scott Galloway for the reference: https://lnkd.in/dAq_GY3g Thank you, Prof. Jonathan Haidt for the metaphor.