Yeah, machine learning is incomprehensibly impressive! But it’s the implementation where corporations have slurped up everyone’s work and turned it into private profit while also wrecking every kind of media that fucking sucks.

Like if a stock photo company wanted to train and use a model for describing stuff in their library, great! Tagging, describing, and enabling discovery is a difficult task. But using it to slop out some low-quality images? You should reconsider what you’re doing with your life.