GenAl is a stolen facsimile of a human
False. It's literally just a computer program.
who can never understand morals or praxis. It can never understand freedom or control.
No computer program will ever understand this, nor should we expect that.
It will however poison our communities (look at what SpaceX/Anthropic is doing in Memphis, TN)
"AI" is not doing this. It's being done by capitalists (spacex, anthropic). Stop letting them off the hook.
make us more predictable (and thus easier to control)
How does using a computer program do this?
and isolate us from other humans within the community which is so important to us.
How does using a computer program do this?
Even with the most moral genAl you can possibly have
Computers have no more "morality" than a calculator.
there is a big difference between my pirating a book like the Lord of the Rings (which is credited and I can see the title of) and how Meta scraped Anna’s archive
This is just your (self-serving) opinion. Many people might find a computer generated summary to be helpful, etc. People have been using Cliff's notes for decades. The value of usage is in the eye of the user.
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TBH this is just feeding the grift with more pseudo-scientific, anthropomorphic nonsense. There is no "AI". We need to fight against problems that actually exist (eg. capitalism, surveillance, genocide, etc).