Maybe I’ve just been naïve, but I found this movie very frightening. It gets a bit silly about 1.5 hours in, but otherwise …
Via ‘new’ tech that exacerbates to the nth degree everything that’s horrifying about AI and apps that enable fake pictures, videos, and text/news—essentially, lying—it shows
the concentration of power
in the ‘hands’ of four white men
who are puerile, narcissistic, delusional, and so out of touch with their own selves, nothing is personal
who speak in metaphor, as cowards do, afraid to admit what they really mean, what they really do
and in a sort of insider ‘bro’ code, so desperate are they to be considered cool and winners (as measured by net financial worth)…
It’s certainly an argument in favour of a profit ceiling.
And it makes me wonder whether only tech from China, where the pursuit of profit is fettered, should be trusted/used.
Pity our choice seems to be between capitalism and dictatorship (though Trump seems to be marrying the two). Where is ‘pure’ communism? Or even socialism? Sweden?
