Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don’t need, and now it’s giving us new things we never needed and don’t even really want. Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We were doing fine with online search functions and the ability to write and make art for ourselves. Only the most shallow and vapid of individuals find any appeal in the idea of talking to a chatbot like a companion, consuming ‘art’ generated by a computer program, or letting the technology of some plutocratic megacorporation do their thinking, researching and expressing for them.” [editor’s note: At least AI can probably write better poetry than Johnstone – TLK] (10/26/25)