AI and The Left (Ft. Peter Coffin)
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In this episode, I sit down with Peter Coffin to talk about AI, automation, art, and why so much of the left has responded to these technologies with moral panic instead of material analysis. We get into the backlash to using AI in political and historical media, the difference between using AI as a tool versus treating it as a substitute for thought, and why so much so-called “AI slop” is really just an extension of older forms of capitalist standardization.
We also talk about AI and music…
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