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@jameshowell@fediscience.org When the internet is full of AI spam and disinformation, then readers can't trust anything but the big known names. And employers and publishers can only trust submissions from people they know personally or to whom they are introduced by the old boys' network. AI is going to be great for gatekeeping the privilege of those already in power & terrible for social mobility.

@coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social The internet offered a chance to democratise knowledge & boost formerly unknown voices - & thus depart from a history where the media was gate-kept. AI spam making the internet unusable & many professions unattainable, except for known powerful voices heads off that challenge to entrenched power. Yes, you could say we are only going back to where we were before, but the way in which AI is being used to accomplish this is worth noting all the same. @falcennial@mastodon.social@jameshowell@fediscience.org

@falcennial@mastodon.social @coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social @jameshowell@fediscience.org Though I think that in the future some things may be even worse than before - eg because of AI spam submissions, aspiring authors won't even be able to send a submission into a publisher unless they have contacts to vouch for them.

@ferrous@neurodifferent.me Agreed. It isn't bigotry or illiberal to reject Kate Forbes as SNP leader with power over others. As Karl Popper said: "if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

@zeenix@toot.cat @QasimRashid@mastodon.social You might want to look into the conditions women endure in Afghanistan before saying the current Taliban is "far better".