• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    It runs on theft and planet-scale destruction.

    You could argue that this is the very nature of capitalism: theft because it always means owners extracting value from other people’s work, and ultimately planet-scale destruction because it depends on infinite growth while externalizing (not paying for) the true costs of its activity.

    In that sense, AI companies are just a faster-growing strain of the global cancer that is capitalism.