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AI & WRITERS OF COLOR [THREAD] - The #WGAstrong strike has me reflecting how whether AI may someday replace writers, it can never replace writers of color. Algorithmic bias, facial recognition tech, etc. prove AI isn't post-race & studies show AI reinforces racial inequality. 1/6
AI is not an objective thinking machine. It is a structure developed in a white supremacist society. Descartes said, “I think therefore I am.” But, he said it when indigenous peoples of Africa, the Americas & Asia were considered barbarians incapable of thinking. 2/6
Today's AI is the patrimony of a white-dominated tech industry & white-centered knowledge production. It’s programming, references, etc. is sourced from white supremacist society. 3/6
Scripts an AI may draw from to composite a new one come from a canon/catalogue a white-dominated culture industry that's always marginalized writers of color. AI can't capture our experience or voice much less the nuance or critiques that've often been in our work. 4/6
To me, it’s more than coincidence that precisely when writers of color have filtered into mainstream culture industry in wake of protest of mvmnts that white studio execs want AI to script entertainment that'll never be able to capture our voice & stories we've yet to tell. 5/6
AI will draw from Hollywood movies that've been propaganda for U.S. capitalism, imperialism, militarism & dominant forces like whiteness or heteropatriarchy. Writers of color have always contested this dominance & we'll need to when AI authors it. We'll always be necessary. 6/6
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