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AI is not "democratizing creativity." It's doing the opposite

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Why Silicon Valley's favorite AI buzz phrase is so misleading and insulting

Greetings, and welcome to another edition of BLOOD IN THE MACHINE, a newsletter about big tech, AI, labor, and power. This newsletter is free to read, so please sign up below, thx, but it’s made possible by those of you who pay to subscribe. It means a great deal, and makes the continuation of this work possible. Thank you. Onwards, and keep those hammers at the ready. You’ve probably heard the news: AI is going to “democratize creativity”. It’s also going to democratize medicine. And education, design, innovation, and, somehow, even knowledge itself. Few AI buzzphrases have stoked my anger…

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