Let's refuse to feed the beast ChatGPT, by Paul B. Preciado
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Language is derailed, disconnected, mutated. It ceases to be a greeting, a cry, a gift, an ode, a promise, an alarm. It becomes a motto and a drone. A dual process of mercantile capture and political re-signification is underway. On the one hand, language, the most abstract of common goods, is being colonized by techno-cybernetic enterprises. On the other, new fascist discourses are reappropriating words (anti-Semitism, memory, woman, feminism, rape, incest, etc.), which until now had served as instruments of political emancipation of the subaltern, to begin a new extermination.
First, a digital fence, similar to that established on common lands at the end of the Middle Ages, precipitating the transition from feudalism to capitalism, is now taking place on the common lands of verbal communication systems. Capitalism in its cybernetic phase is thus penetrating the last territory denied to it: the immaterial space of human relations coded by means of culturally constructed signs, the unknown and unfathomable continent of brains bubbling with words day and night, society as a whole as a reservoir of linguistic creativity.
This process of capture does not take place through the exteriority of the government institution, the factory, or the supermarket. The administration has become a cell phone, the factory a computer, and the supermarket an application. The three have merged and taken the form and
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