THE ANTICAPITALIST MACHINES MANIFESTO
No one looked askance at the idea that robots could be 'slaves', or even that machines could have a science-fiction 'revolution' of their own. These seem to be very comfortable literary tropes. However, no one seems so happy with the idea that a robot or machine could reverse this spurious Hegelian relationship, and become a 'master' in the real life. Nowhere is this better seen than in the recent 'AI panic' triggered by the intrusion of generative tools into artistic work. The milieu of financial operations has been ruled by bots for decades, but it is only now, when generative AI threatens art, that we see human fundamentalism appear. Artistic work, supported by the legal fiction of the figure of the 'author', is the last refuge of fundamentalist humanism which now sees its supposed uniqueness −as the only creative and dominant force in the planet− threatened. Many claim that taking a stand against generative AIs is a way of opposing ...