Love Machines Quotes

“More than any other force, it has been the spread of global capitalism that has disassembled traditional networks of care and connection, replacing them with precarious work, financialisation and the relentless mantra of individualism. The bitter irony is that the capitalist system responsible for this social unravelling is now profiting from the loneliness it helped to create. The loneliness economy - from social media to dating apps, mental health apps and AI companions - has sprung up to sell back to us the sense of connection we so deeply crave.”
― James Muldoon, Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships

“Creating AI systems requires millions of hours of manual labour from data annotators, who are often working in digital sweatshops in the Global South under gruelling conditions for little more than a dollar an hour. What is packaged as automation and sophisticated software is often simply low-paid workers hurriedly fulfilling our requests from behind a digital screen. The irony is that while new AI tools can perform all of the fun work, like composing poetry and painting portraits, humans are left with all the difficult, messy and boring tasks involved in training AI. We end up with a bizarre world in which humans are forced to perform robotic labour so that AI can become more human.”
― James Muldoon, Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships