Unironically one of the best pieces of writing on genAI I have ever read. Love to see RPS citing Marx too. The only good gaming website (well maybe Kotaku too)

Much has been written about genAI “hallucinations”, when the model serves up images and texts that are inaccurate or defy comprehension, but the frictionless “speed” of ChatGPT is its greatest “hallucination”. It’s the compressed and translated aftermath of centuries of people making things; the mass-compacting of creations from whose histories the creators are now partly or wholly excluded. It’s an insultingly literal manifestation of the old Marxist insight that capitalism thrives by portraying the relationships between the people who make a thing as relationships between the things they’ve made.

-Edwin Evans-Thirlwell