Fuck AI.
Honestly, just fuck AI.
Don’t want it, don’t need it, never asked for it.
It’s being excitingly called the second industrial revolution.
Fucking really? This is supposed to be a good thing? Have these people looked into the first industrial revolution?
REMINDER: IT WAS AN UTTERLY HORRENDOUSLY SHIT TIME FOR MOST HUMAN BEINGS ON THE PLANET.
And by the way, the planet itself, the entire basis for our biophysical existence, in case you haven’t noticed, IS BARELY SURVIVING THE FIRST ONE.
And we’re going to do a second one?
And we’ve all got to be hyped for it?
So after literally terraforming the Earth in a series of processes that have completely bastardised the relationship between humans, nature and non-human animals, we’re now going to digitally terraform it?
Cool.
And no, I do not give a flying fuck that China did some AI that is better and cheaper and more efficient than the western tech companies.
No, it’s not going to collapse capitalism.
No, it’s not ‘over’ for western AI.
Not going to be anything other than a boost to the entire project of AI-ifying our entire existence.
Not going to be anything other than a MASSIVE drain on finite biophysical planetary resources.
Do people know how much water and energy AI data centres use? How much they are projected to use?
Global data centres already use more electricity than most countries.
By 2028 data centres are forecast to consume 12% of all US electricity.
Three Mile fucking Island is restarting for Microsoft’s AI data centres!
China’s DeepSeek is a bit more energy efficient right now, in the early stage.
But it doesn’t run off thin fucking air.
Grow up.
Baby fucking bird brains going on about DeepSeek like it’s a mortal blow to American hegemony.
Fuck me.
Do people genuinely think China having a good text bot is in any way a real threat to American tech, to capitalism, to American hegemony?
But tech stock line go down!
Cool. Lines go down, lines go up. Watch.
Sometimes lines go really far down and American capitalism is reconstituted without any justice or lessons learned or bad guys punished.
I guess people just want a Chinese shortcut to imagining sad face on bad man.
When I posted that it was pathetic that some leftists decided they now liked AI because China was doing it someone said this in response.
Huh?
HOW?
AI is just a tool. It’s not the model. It doesn’t remove any financial incentive at all. You just use DeepSeek to do the same thing you were using ChatGPT or Gemini or other text bots for.
It still sucks up massive energy.
It seems like we’re so starved of goodness that we’re desperate to ascribe worthy humanitarian goals to breakthroughs that aren’t achieved by western capitalists.
(China stans don’t come for me I’m well aware China does some great stuff.)
Also, AI is not I and not really even A.
Good rebrand.
We used to call it big data. Big data organised by human programmed algorithms and machine learning to spit out words and pictures.
(AI stans don’t come for me I’m aware transformers were a big advance in processing language for context and nuance.)
All still just big data at the end of the day.
OUR DATA.
That we never consented to being used in this way.
How do people think AI is going to be used under rapacious extractive capitalism that cares only about growth economically and dominance socially?
In a really dystopian future you could imagine AI being used to power a genocide?
In a really dystopian world you could imagine AI being used to target people who need help from the state to live and strip them of benefit payments.
In a really dystopian world you could imagine AI being used to comb through massive amounts of CCTV images to profile people for pre-crimes.
OH, IT’S ALREADY FUCKING DOING THAT.
In a really dystopian world you could imagine AI replacing all the people who work in creative industries, all the designers, writers, illustrators, filmmakers.
OH LOOK, IT’S DOING IT IN CHINA!
In just a few years the internet has been fucking over-run with totally pointless dogshit images of totally pointless dogshit things.
Things that do nothing, are nothing, add nothing, but used enough energy to power a small country or enough water to alleviate a famine.
Dogshit.
How is China’s AI going to change any of this?
AI IS A TOOL, NOT THE MODEL!
AI IS MAKING PEOPLE IN CHINA REDUNDANT FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
This isn’t our first rodeo.
We know how this goes!
Sorry, there was a lot of caps-lock swearing in here.
But I’m just so tired of the fucking AI discourse.
And got especially tired of the claims of benign, empire defeating Chinese AI.
Fuck AI.
Fuck AI even, and especially, when it comes for the ranting blog writers.
Or, as they say in China: 去他妈的人工智能
Extreme agree. Throw it into the fire of a thousand hot suns.
I needed to read this rant this morning, thank you. I’m blinking in disbelief that someone would think that China competing with the US over who has the biggest AI would somehow convince the US to not have AI. Huh?
I appreciate you so much, I don’t know what’s going on with my Internet but when I clicked on the email the text was slow to load and it really looked like your whole message was just “Fuck AI” as the title, and that’s it. and I giggled and thought, yeah, that really is all that needs to be said. But I’m glad the rest loaded so I could read it. I needed to read this this morning.