Like almost everything under capitalism, ChatGPT too, serves an ideological function. Seen from such a functional perspective, an ideology needs to achieve…
Attention-grabbing and sensationalist media capitalism has ensured that many people fear artificial intelligence (AI). For that, a monster called Frankenstein is often…
By June 2023, the global mass media continued to hype up the hysteria about artificial intelligence (AI) with outlandish statements ā such…
Despite the daily media hype about artificial intelligence (AI), there still is a rather sobering reality of AI. This is the point…
By May 2023, the European Parliamentās committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) has voted to strengthen its legislative proposal…
First of all, conspiracy theories arenāt theories. They are more like fantasies ā conspiracy fantasies.Ā And they are not theories in our…
Recently, there has been plenty of rather sensational news about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will change work. Some have even…
In general, one might like to distinguish between real conspiracies and conspiracy theories. In a real conspiracy, a few conspirators get together…
In recent months, we have seen workers who went on strike in Germany and France. Might this be a prelude to overturning…
Just when one starts to think, there really is nothing more to say about conspiracy theories ā or better, conspiracy fantasies as…
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