Artificical Intelligences promises broad, populist access to once-elite crafts, like writing and art creation. It levels the playing field of drafting and illustrating your ideas, denying class distinctions and privileged hierarchies.
This conception of “AI as a leveling tool” highlights its neutralizing, even socialist or communist potential: equity of outcome, despite circumstances, and populist access to lofty realms.
AI, in this regard, de-centers and disincentivizes traditional skills. Devoid of these meritocratic virtues, your worth could be valued by your humanity alone, not rarefied traits or pathological diligence or supportive access.
And yet, those who make the AI platform and decisions that govern the LLMs and Generators maintain distance with their rarified skills and wealth: the pinnacle of capitalism and meritocracy. In this regard, the intelligent coder and platform backer outmaneuvers mass humanity to further dissuade or reprogram resistance by removing the friction of process and thinking, which is itself a rarified skill.
Similarly, capitalism once again dissuades skill acquisition, like the industrial assembly line wasting talent on monotony. Meanwhile, utilizing the “tools of capitalism” hollows the revolutionary spirit into platitudes since we develop a symbiotic reliance.