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by bbor 1232 days ago
The goal is stated at the bottom - they take it for granted that no one wants to be ruled by chatbot. The point is to get you to think about what exactly is wrong with this picture, and what that says about the future you wish to see

> It was the goal of this project to show a dystopian future, sensitizing people to undesirable futures while stimulating a discussion about what they wish the future to be like.

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Thanks for clarifying, you described this project well.

In my view taking for granted that the role of AI would be bad/dystopian makes it unsuitable to be called a discussion.

Imagine if we switch this topic to immigration in the 1900s, then we'd have a project that take for granted that a country where the majority are immigrants would be dystopian, and the "discussion" would revolve around how to stop migrants from coming in or getting rid of them.

Many times in history we've been blindspotted by quickly applying good/bad dichotomy to every matter, instead of exploring it.