征服图像与变革行动的基础
Conquering images and the basis of transformative action
AI总结：
本文批判在线图像与AI叙事在注意力经济中商品化心智、强化社会等级，主张通过识别图像本质与对立叙事相似性来推动变革行动。
摘要：
我们迅速沉浸于在线生活，使我们都病了。通过生成、个性化和传播迷人的图像，人工智能技术以令人作呕的精确度和规模将大众的思想和心灵商品化。在线网络、人工智能（AI）、社交媒体和数字新闻推送通过建立叙事来细分和极化我们的社区与身份，从而微调我们的信念和追求。与此同时，那些掌控这些技术的人征服了我们内心生活、社会关系、地球和宇宙的最后疆域。在注意力经济中，我们的自主权受到限制，我们的活力被消耗，以满足他们自恋的追求和愉悦。生成式AI助长了那些同质化和消灭生命的力量，不是通过某种愚蠢的“奇点”事件，而是通过贬低人类创造力、劳动和社会生活。我们将通过一个破碎的镜头，审视叙事和网络如何在心理、社会和算法层面影响我们。我们将讨论原子化图像——即疏远而非激励个体的理想和追求——如何劫持人们的自主权，以维持那些摧毁他们的力量。我们将发现帝国如何构建数字网络来优化社会，并助长自恋者强制执行社会二元对立，从而延续消费、剥削和等级制度的无休止扩张。世界中的结构性等级制度通过我们信念和思维中的等级制度得以具体化。只有将图像视为图像，并欣赏对立叙事之间的相似性，我们才能促进变革行动，摆脱困扰我们生活的军事化系统。
英文摘要：
Our rapid immersion into online life has made us all ill. Through the generation, personalization, and dissemination of enchanting imagery, artificial technologies commodify the minds and hearts of the masses with nauseating precision and scale. Online networks, artificial intelligence (AI), social media, and digital news feeds fine-tune our beliefs and pursuits by establishing narratives that subdivide and polarize our communities and identities. Meanwhile those commanding these technologies conquer the final frontiers of our interior lives, social relations, earth, and cosmos. In the Attention Economy, our agency is restricted and our vitality is depleted for their narcissistic pursuits and pleasures. Generative AI empowers the forces that homogenize and eradicate life, not through some stupid "singularity" event, but through devaluing human creativity, labor, and social life. Using a fractured lens, we will examine how narratives and networks influence us on mental, social, and algorithmic levels. We will discuss how atomizing imagery -- ideals and pursuits that alienate, rather than invigorate the individual -- hijack people's agency to sustain the forces that destroy them. We will discover how empires build digital networks that optimize society and embolden narcissists to enforce social binaries that perpetuate the ceaseless expansion of consumption, exploitation, and hierarchy. Structural hierarchy in the world is reified through hierarchy in our beliefs and thinking. Only by seeing images as images and appreciating the similarity shared by opposing narratives can we facilitate transformative action and break away from the militaristic systems plaguing our lives.
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