ON HUMANS AND MACHINES
by Ploum on 2023-02-11

https://ploum.net/2023-02-11-human-and-machines.html

In the ultimate form of marketing-capitalism, companies try to transform
human workers into replaceable working machines and ask them to produce
machines that should sound like they are humans.

To achieve that, they build machines that learn from humans.

While humans believe that, in order to gain success, they need to act
like machines acting like humans. That’s because the success is defined
by some counters created by the machines. The machines, themselves, are
now learning from machines that act like humans instead of learning from
humans.

So, in the end, we have humans acting like "machines learning from
machines acting like humans" built by humans actings like machines.

That’s make "being human" really confusing. Hopefully I don’t need to
think about what "being a machine" means.