Ariana Bindman writes:

While San Francisco’s tech world has always been obnoxious on a cultural level due to its own lack of self-awareness, what it’s morphing into now is downright terrifying.

As websites like Teespring continue to peddle pumpkin spice propaganda to die-hard autumnal girlies, OpenAI and Anthropic are sucking up billions of dollars in funding, signaling a new dawn in the Bay Area’s capitalist landscape. Perhaps in a futile effort to keep up, powerful biotech, hardware and software companies are axing thousands of workers, many of whom are now probably struggling to afford basic resources like food, gas and medical care. Dropbox and Salesforce executives have shamelessly admitted that they sacrificed them in favor of AI — and the smug new billboards we see every day are just an ugly symptom of their rotten ideology.

According to tech recruiters, executives believe that perfectly capable, intelligent people who have been laid off are “table scraps” and “damaged goods.” Mark Zuckerberg wants us to trust and develop relationships with his digital chatbots, stating that “the average American, I think, has fewer than three friends.” Meanwhile, his same company’s guidelines also previously said that it was totally “acceptable” for them “to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.” Marc Benioff is practically frothing at the mouth to cut costs, declaring that now, thanks to his company’s new fleet of AI workers, “We can have less support agents, human support agents, more digital support agents. We can mix our human labor with our digital labor in a new way and create an incredible new Salesforce.”

Based on these recent events, it’s obvious, to me at least, that investors and founders alike couldn’t care less about the consequences of their ungodly creations.

They don’t care if data centers are robbing drought-stricken communities of precious drinking water. They don’t care that ChatGPT is likely corroding our brains. They don’t care that AI slop is baiting our grandparents. They don’t care that Meta’s virtual girlfriends are luring vulnerable family members far from home, like the retiree who tragically fell to his death near a New Jersey parking lot.

What these tech oligarchs are ultimately telling us, dear friend, is that they simply don’t care about us, and when they finally pillage every last resource the Earth has to offer, they’ll happily throw back $64 olive oil shots while dancing like idiots on our graves. [Continue reading…]