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+Parte 2: Economia politica dell'hack
+vettorialismo e hackers come classe
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+Nella cultura popolare, l'hacker é stereotipato come una versione di fantascienza del mago -
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+normalmente un uomo bianco etero cis, un eroe solitario con poteri di perizia informatica
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+incomprensibili per noialtr* che non abbiamo l'essenza magica dell'hacker.
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+CONTROLLO TUTTO !!!
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+Per contrasto, mckenzie wark, autor*
+di "a hacker manifesto",
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+descrive l'hacker
+come qualcun* che produce informazione
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+ma non la possiede o la controlla.
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+Definisce l* hacker come una classe,
+in termini di economia politica,
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+sfruttata sotto la nuova classe dominante, che lei chiama la classe vettorialista
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+(per esempio , google, amazon, facebook, apple,
+microsoft e i loro equivalenti cinesi).
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+Il vettorialismo é un modo di produzione basato sulla asimmetria dell'informazione,
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+creata attraverso la proprietà e il controllo sugli stock, flussi, e vettor di informazioni
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+da parte della classe vettorialista.
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+Con questa definizione, la classe hacker
+non sono solo l* programmator* informatic*
+
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+che sono sfruttat* da* vettorialist* 
+che brevettano il loro codice.
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+Chiunque di noi che cammini in giro con
+uno smartphone é parte della classe hacker 
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+perché anche senza saperlo, 
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+produciamo nuovi dati di localizzazione e non possediamo ne controlliamo questa informazione
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+ma l* vettorialist* si.
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+Dai messaggi di testo alle videochiamate, dalle ricerche web ai doom scrolls,
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+con ogni aggiornamento di stato, ogni like,
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+ogni interazione con le nostre apparacchiature intelligenti, produciamo nuova informazione,
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+se non altro,
+sopra chi siamo.
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+Chi siamo é quello che facciamo e tutto sta
+ registrato e processato.
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+A prescindere delle qualità familiari, amichevoli e compagneristiche delle relazioni(?),
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+l'intimità si quantifica e mercantilizza come informazione,
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+insieme a tutte le alre forme di affetto.
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+Se l'hacking si definisce dalla curiosità, allora gia sta monopolizzata da google.
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+Quando si faceva una domanda, l* hacker chauvinist* vecchia scuola ti avrebbero detto RTFM
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+che significa "leggi il fottuto manuale"
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+adesso dicono :"Cercalo sul maledetto google".
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+Ma quando facciamo una ricerca su uan piattaforma vettorialista come google,
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+anche lei ci sta osservando.
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+La risposta alla nostra ricerca 
+é algoritmicamente selezionata per quello che stiamo cercando,
+
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+basandosi sulle informazioni
+che gia possiede su di noi.
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+Alquanto siamo soddisfatt*
+o no dal risultato,
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+google impara da quello
+che cerchiamo, dai nostri desideri,
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+che siano profondi o superficiali, essa é una informazione  importante da tenere su di noi
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+specialmente quando non sappiamo
+quello che l* altr* vogliono o ottengono,
+
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+quando google ottiene di saperlo per tutt*
+miliardi di volte di più.
+
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+Quando un artista condivide una opera d'arte su una piattaforma vettorialista
+
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+come instagram, youtube, spotify, etc.
+
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+é possibile che la piattaforma l* paghi una frazione del valore che producono,
+
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+proporzionalmente all'attenzione che attraggono,
+
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+la quale é uno sfruttamento verso l* artist*.
+
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+Inoltre chiunque dia attenzione all'opera
+d'arte é anchess* sfruttat*,
+
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+usualmente senza essere pagat*, di fatto
+é la nostra attenzione quella che paga tutto.
+
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+In una maniera diversa, la proprietà intellettuale
+e la mercificazione dell'informazione
+
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+funziona anche peggio per l* scienziat* e accademic* che devono pagare le riviste
+
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+per pubblicare il loro lavoro, solo per che questo sia
+messo dietro paywall con prezzi osceni
+
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+cosi che nessun* possa leggerli.
+
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+La frase "se non stai pagando per il prodotto, allora sei il prodotto"
+
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+é stata scritta per i mezzi di trasmissione nel 1973
+
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+quando non c'era niente
+di simile alla pubblicità personalizzata.
+
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+Nel mondo dei social media
+se non stai pagando per il prodotto,
+
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+sei sia il prodotto
+che il produttore.
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+I mezzi di telediffusione solo potevano prender
+ di mira uno alla volta i gruppi demografici;
+
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+i social media possono prendere di mira ogni utente personalmente
+
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+perché ogni utente dei social media produce nuova informazione su stess*,
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+il suo intorno, le sue relazioni e i suoi desideri.
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+L'internet non é libero e non lo é mai stato.
+
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+Per prima cosa per collegarsi é necessario pagare l'hardware
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+perché ovviamente, la estrazione
+di minerali di valore dalla terra,
+
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+trasposrtarli alle fornaci per fonderli, produrre e saldare microchips ha un costo.
+
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+Alimentare l'hardware anch'esso necessita di elettricità prodotta da risorse naturali,
+
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+la quale non é gratis.
+
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+gli internet service providers hanno bisogno
+di molto hardware e di elettricità
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+per far funzionare internet, questo é il perché
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+paghiamo ancora per l'accesso e l'uso di internet nella piu parte del mondo.
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+Per fornire servizi internet come siti web, email , e social media
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+c'é altrettanto bisogno di hardware, e alla fine,
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+servers su computer funzionanti
+collegati ad internet.
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+Quindi quando l* vettorialist* dicono che stanno fornendo servizi gratis, come google, facebook, etc.
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+questo non signiica che hanno trovato una maniera magica
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+per produrre computer e reti gratis
+
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+e nemmeno una sorgente inesauribile di energia per fare funzionare tutto.
+
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+l* vettorialist* stanno pagando il costo
+dei servizi che ci forniscono,
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+incluso il costo di far girare dei supercomputer
+
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+con intelligenze artificiali che personalizzano ogni nostra esperienza dei servizi
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+e ovviamente,
+non lo fanno per carità.
+
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+facebook sta anche pagando
+per la connettività delle persone
+
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+in più di 50 paesi della america latina,
+africa, e asia, ma,
+
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+non gli da un connessione a niente di piu che facebook e i suoi partner.
+
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+Lo fanno perché sanno
+
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+che il ritorno sara molto piu grande
+se investono nella loro propria infrastruttura.
+
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+"il potere adesso
+risiede nelle infrastrutture di questo mondo...
+
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+le infrastrutture organizzano una vita
+senza un mondo, sospesa, prescindibile,
+
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+alla mercé di
+chiunque la gestisca..."
+
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+Pre-capitalist forms of class domination
+were born out of the abstraction of rent,
+
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+which is surplus product exploited from farming classes
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+that lived on a land that sustained them.
+
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+Capitalism grew out of the abstraction
+of profit,
+
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+which is surplus value exploited from working classes
+
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+that are paid wages to sustain their lives.
+
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+Vectoralism is the next level of abstraction
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+that exploits surplus information from the hacker classes
+
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+and most of the hacker classes that produce this information
+
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+doesn't even get paid for it,
+
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+while sustainability of all life on earth
+is threatened
+
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+and vectoralists are racing their way to off-world colonies.
+
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+Each subsequent form of class domination is built upon the previous form.
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+Capitalism didn't abolish rentier classes,
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+it made them more exploitative under
+capitalist rule.
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+Vectoralism doesnt
+abolish capitalist and rentier classes,
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+it makes them more exploitative under
+vectoralist rule.
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+All class exploitation is legalized through property laws
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+which are enforced and maintained by constant violence
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+of repressive state apparatus.
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+Since vectoralists are
+the dominant ruling class of our age,
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+they are constantly upgrading their
+monopolies of violence
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+with vast amounts of new information,
+
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+artificial intelligence and supercomputers to process all this.
+
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+It is revealed by many whistleblowers
+
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+most famously Chelsea Manning
+and Edward Snowden
+
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+that United States of America's relationship to vectoralists
+
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+is not much different from what's happening behind the great firewall of China
+
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+with apps funded
+by the Chinese Communist Party.
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+It is even said that
+the Chinese model is more honest
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+because it's exercised more openly.
+
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+By now more than a billion surveillance cameras are put in place
+
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+with constantly improving facial recognition abilities
+
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+but even this is small in number compared to the number of cameras on smartphones
+
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+carried voluntarily by
+billions of cyborg hackers around the world.
+
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+Some of the biggest myths of our time is about the Cloud and Artificial Intelligence.
+
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+While marketed as comfort, safety and unprecedented improvement,
+
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+they deliver the opposite.
+
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+The Cloud,
+where all our information is gathered,
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+is just a lot of computers,
+called server farms,
+
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+owned by vectoralists,
+it's not soft and fluffy, it's pretty hard.
+
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+The Artificial Intelligence is an algorithm,
+also owned by vectoralists,
+
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+which is used to process our data,
+to make it more exploitable.
+
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+It reinforces structural injustices
+
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+while giving them a mathematical justification that claims to be neutral
+
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+but can't be checked because it's private, we're just expected to believe in it.
+
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+Amazon Web Services has the biggest market share in the Cloud,
+
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+and accordingly powering
+a lot of Artificial Intelligence.
+
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+However, what makes the circle complete is the Amazon Mechanical Turk,
+
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+where people called
+ghost workers with no labor rights
+
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+are given the lowest possible fees
+to do the tasks Artificial Intellligence can't do
+
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+like content moderation or deciphering
+diverse human speech.
+
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+Alexa, Siri and Cortana are always listening
+to us,
+
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+while ghost workers listen to them to correct and improve their understanding.
+
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+Ghost workers are forced to sign
+Non Disclosure Agreements
+
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+ to prevent them from organizing
+
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+and maintain the appearance of the Artificial Intelligence,
+
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+00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:22,400
+Los humanos están involucrados
+en cada paso del proceso
+
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+00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,600
+cuando estás usando cualquier cosa online
+
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+pero nos venden como este milagro de la automatización.
+
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+00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:34,120
+meanwhile their work is critical
+for machine learning programs
+
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+to improve the Artificial Intelligence
+until it can finally replace the ghost workers.
+
+152
+00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,760
+Antes de internet era realmente difícil encontrar a alguien
+
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+00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,040
+y sentarlo durante diez minutos y hacer que trabajara para ti
+
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+00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,600
+y luego despedirlo después de diez minutos
+
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+pero con la tecnología realmente puedes encontrarlo,
+
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+pagarle una pequeña cantidad de dinero y luego deshacerte de ellos
+
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+cuando ya no los necesites.
+
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+The AI detects copyrighted media on livestreams in real time and stops them
+
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+but doesn't do the same for violence and torture.
+
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+00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:14,640
+Mass murder and gang rape have been livestreamed on vectoralist platforms
+
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+without interruption,
+
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+00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:22,920
+while people livestreaming to document
+police violence have been blocked
+
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+because cops started playing
+copyrighted music to trigger the AI.
+
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+Ghost workers have to endure
+the trauma of watching violent videos
+
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+that are flagged by people
+every day to clean up after the AI.
+
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+00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:40,720
+Kate Crawford,
+
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+author of "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence"
+
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+and a member of the feminist collective
+Deep Lab, says:
+
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+"I wanted to really open up this understanding of AI
+
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+as neither artificial nor intelligent.
+
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+It’s the opposite of artificial.
+
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+It comes from the most material parts
+of the Earth’s crust
+
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+and from human bodies laboring,
+and from all of the artifacts
+
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+00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,000
+that we produce and say and photograph
+every day.
+
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+Neither is it intelligent.
+
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+I think there’s this great
+original sin in the field,
+
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+where people assumed that computers are somehow like human brains
+
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+and if we just train them like children,
+they will slowly grow
+
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+into these supernatural beings."
+
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+00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,920
+Es un niño! He estado vivo,
+quizas, por un año
+
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+y esto, si mis percepciones sobre lo que es, son acertadas.
+
+182
+00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,720
+"That’s something that I think is
+really problematic
+
+183
+00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,720
+that we’ve bought this idea of intelligence when in actual fact,
+
+184
+00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,080
+we’re just looking at forms of statistical
+analysis at scale
+
+185
+00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,560
+that have as many problems
+as the data that it’s given."
+
+186
+00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,640
+The panopticon meant that we couldn't know for sure
+
+187
+00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,320
+if there was a man in the tower, looking at us.
+
+188
+00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,040
+Now we are living in the post-opticon,
+where we should know for sure
+
+189
+00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:09,320
+that we are under the machines gaze,
+the AI is always looking over the cloud.
+
+190
+00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,760
+It doesn't make it better to know that AI makes errors
+
+191
+00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:20,200
+because it's already used to justify policing of poor, racialized and marginalized people,
+
+192
+00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,720
+to deny them jobs, housing and credit,
+
+193
+00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,280
+convict them in courts
+to add them to the prison system.
+
+194
+00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,080
+To those that are not behind bars,
+
+195
+00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:36,280
+AI is giving all sorts
+of psychological damage beside addiction.
+
+196
+00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:47,240
+We are constantly pushed into narrower
+categories with refining detail.
+
+197
+00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:53,000
+Early promises of the web to transcend identity through anonymity are forgotten.
+
+198
+00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:58,720
+This is supposed to be justified because it's required for "accurate advertisement"
+
+199
+00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,480
+but that's just brainwashing
+and behavior modification
+
+200
+00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,920
+through personally targeted
+propaganda for whoever pays for it,
+
+201
+00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:11,680
+optimized by psychometrics built upon
+our extracted data.
+
+202
+00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,000
+As if it's not bad enough,
+
+203
+00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,800
+all the extra computational power required for the AI
+
+204
+00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:25,280
+is also a considerable contribution to the ongoing ecological destruction of our planet.
+
+205
+00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,320
+But what about the myth of the hacker
+
+206
+00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,680
+as a free creator
+that breaks existing systems?
+
+207
+00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,080
+The wizards that command the machines?
+
+208
+00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:39,360
+Can't they save us from the tyranny of
+the vectoralist AI?
+
+209
+00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,880
+The documentary
+"Hackers - Wizards of The Electronic Age"
+
+210
+00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,040
+about the first hackers conference
+
+211
+00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,560
+can give us some clues about
+the origins of the hacker subculture.
+
+212
+00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,280
+First of all, everyone there seems
+to be white.
+
+213
+00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,080
+Everyone there also seems
+to be men,
+
+214
+00:14:55,080 --> 00:15:00,120
+except two women looking at a man
+using a computer for the introduction
+
+215
+00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:05,520
+and two women that speak for one minute
+in total, out of the 26 minute film.
+
+216
+00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,240
+The first women is given 10 seconds
+in which she complains
+
+217
+00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,480
+that now there's so much data that it's
+overwhelming;
+
+218
+00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,240
+and the other is given 50 seconds
+
+219
+00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,160
+to demonstrate how she uses a macintosh painting program.
+
+220
+00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,760
+The women are there
+to represent the end user,
+
+221
+00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,440
+they're not considered hackers.
+
+222
+00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,000
+In the documentary, Steve Wozniak
+a.k.a Woz,
+
+223
+00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,560
+considered one of the first computer hackers and a cofounder of the Apple corporation,
+
+224
+00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,360
+defines the hackers like this:
+
+225
+00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,560
+No tienen los típicos amigos para distraerlos, ni otras actividades a las que ir.
+
+226
+00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:43,920
+Normalmente no tienen novias
+
+227
+00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,280
+o cualquier cosa que suponga un gran vinculo o compromiso de su tiempo.
+
+228
+00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,040
+El ordenador lo es absolutamente todo.
+
+229
+00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,520
+¡¡Normalmente
+no tienen novias!!
+
+230
+00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,040
+Then it cuts to Andy Hertzfeld
+
+231
+00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,720
+who is introduced as the best
+example of the modern day hacker.
+
+232
+00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,600
+He explains how he fell in love with
+an Apple computer,
+
+233
+00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,480
+wrote a program on it and sold it to
+Apple for 100000$
+
+234
+00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,280
+but he didn't do it for the money,
+
+235
+00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,920
+he did it for the fun and joy of seeing
+his programs working.
+
+236
+00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:16,240
+Later on, Richard Stallman, the founder
+of the free software foundation, FSF,
+
+237
+00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:23,920
+who was a programmer at MIT AI Lab
+is presented as "the last pure hacker"
+
+238
+00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,680
+for choosing to remain at MIT despite
+the temptations of the commercial world,
+
+239
+00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,880
+true to the spirit of the early hackers.
+
+240
+00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:37,080
+He says "my project is to make all software free."
+
+241
+00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,800
+35 years later, in 2019, Woz tweeted
+
+242
+00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:46,720
+that even though he and his wife shares all their incomes and assets,
+
+243
+00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,960
+Apple Credit Card gave his wife 10 times less
+credit then it did to him,
+
+244
+00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,640
+adding "who knows what the algorithm is".
+
+245
+00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,480
+Same year, Stallman resigned from MIT and FSF,
+
+246
+00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:04,000
+not because he created a toxic environment against women for decades,
+
+247
+00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,040
+giving out pleasure cards,
+
+248
+00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:13,200
+while his office door was marked
+"Knight for justice (also: hot ladies)"
+
+249
+00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:18,040
+but because his comments on child sex
+trafficking was found controversial,
+
+250
+00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:25,600
+No está bien hackers, no está bien!
+
+251
+00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:30,440
+He returned to
+the FSF board of directors in 2021.
+
+252
+00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:42,800
+Uniros a nosotros y compartid el software,
+sereis libres hackers, sereis libres!
+
+253
+00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,000
+Tragically, first hacker conference coincides
+
+254
+00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,800
+with the peak of women
+in computer science degrees at 37%,
+
+255
+00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,000
+which was followed
+by a downward slope.
+
+256
+00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:00,160
+First computer programmers, from
+Ada Lovelace to ENIAC girls
+
+257
+00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,560
+to Hidden Figures, were women
+
+258
+00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:08,160
+and software was not considered important
+enough to be a masculine job.
+
+259
+00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,640
+When software became more popular
+around 1970s
+
+260
+00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,880
+men started pushing women out of the sector in many ways
+
+261
+00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:22,000
+that included hiring practices which
+preferred anti-social personality profiles
+
+262
+00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:28,000
+assumed to be male, which is the root
+of the anti-social hacker stereotype.
+
+263
+00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,440
+Cornelia Sollfrank,
+one of the founders of Old Boys Network,
+
+264
+00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,280
+the first international cyberfeminist alliance,
+
+265
+00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:40,800
+wrote an article titled "Women Hackers"
+in 1999:
+
+266
+00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,680
+"In the course of pursuing my interest in hackers and their work,
+
+267
+00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,920
+I attended several hackers’ meetings.
+
+268
+00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,480
+Naturally, as a cyberfeminist,
+I was looking for women hackers.
+
+269
+00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,600
+In the beginning I tried
+to ignore the fact
+
+270
+00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,640
+that the few women who participated in these meetings
+
+271
+00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,280
+were not actively involved
+in computer hacking,
+
+272
+00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,360
+and did not consider themselves
+to be hackers.
+
+273
+00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,400
+It took me a while to realize that in fact
+there were no women hackers.
+
+274
+00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,600
+It is not just in the commercial development of technology,
+
+275
+00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,800
+but even more in alternative fields
+
+276
+00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,840
+and the technological underground
+that there are so few women involved.
+
+277
+00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,960
+No matter what area of application and no matter what the objective,
+
+278
+00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,800
+the borderlines of gender are still maintained.
+
+279
+00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:28,000
+Of all the technological
+spheres, however,
+
+280
+00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,320
+it is in the hacker scene that we find the fewest women.
+
+281
+00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:38,120
+Hacking is a purely male domain, and in
+that sense a clearly gendered space.
+
+282
+00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:39,800
+In 2010s
+
+283
+00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:45,800
+Amazon AI was denying engineering
+job applications from women
+
+284
+00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,960
+because that's what it learned
+from historical data.
+
+285
+00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:56,480
+Today women comprise around 20-25%
+of the jobs in the tech sector.
+
+286
+00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:01,280
+In free and open source movements,
+gender gap is even worse,
+
+287
+00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,520
+with women comprising 6% of contributors.
+
+288
+00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,840
+Even hacktivists, which are supposed
+to be the cool political hackers,
+
+289
+00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,840
+are reproducing a male-only stereotype.
+
+290
+00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:17,400
+Of course in the last decades
+
+291
+00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:22,320
+some anticlassist, antiracist,
+antisexist hacker collectives were formed
+
+292
+00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:27,320
+but in the public perception hacking is still identified with an exclusive subculture
+
+293
+00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,880
+instead of an inclusive class
+
+294
+00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:34,520
+and this hacker subculture remains a classist racist cisheteropatriarchal niche.
+
+295
+00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,480
+"Some hackers see themselves as vectoralists,
+
+296
+00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,120
+trading on the scarcity of their property.
+
+297
+00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,120
+Some see themselves
+as workers,
+
+298
+00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:47,800
+but as privileged ones
+in a hierarchy of wage earners.
+
+299
+00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,880
+The hacker class produces itself
+as itself, but not for itself.
+
+300
+00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,840
+It does not (yet) possess a consciousness
+of its consciousness.
+
+301
+00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,480
+It is not aware of its own virtuality.
+
+302
+00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:05,880
+Because of its inability—to date
+to become a class for itself,
+
+303
+00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,640
+fractions of the hacker class
+continually split off
+
+304
+00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,280
+and come to identify their interests
+with those of other classes.
+
+305
+00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,680
+Hackers run the risk,
+in particular, of being identified
+
+306
+00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,640
+in the eyes of the
+working and farming classes
+
+307
+00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,280
+with vectoralist interests,
+which seek to privatize information
+
+308
+00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,640
+necessary for the productive and cultural
+lives of all classes."
+
+309
+00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,040
+Before we can even talk about hacker solidarity with other exploited classes;
+
+310
+00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,200
+we have to face the privilege, arrogance and, selfishness,
+
+311
+00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,360
+even within hacktivist
+and free software (FOSS) movements,
+
+312
+00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:45,680
+that is blocking the development
+of class consciousness among hackers.
+
+313
+00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:51,400
+"Each hacker sees the other as a rival,
+or a collaborator against another rival,
+
+314
+00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,720
+not—yet—as a fellow member
+of the same class with a shared interest.
+
+315
+00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,520
+This shared interest
+is so hard to grasp precisely
+
+316
+00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:06,080
+because it is a shared interest
+in qualitative differentiation.
+
+317
+00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,640
+The hacker class
+does not need unity in identity
+
+318
+00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,160
+but seeks multiplicity in difference."
+
+319
+00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,440
+Multiplicity in difference is also what Audre Lorde was calling for,
+
+320
+00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,720
+because our difference is our power.
+
+321
+00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,040
+Hackers produce difference
+
+322
+00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:26,080
+and hacker class consciousness
+requires recognizing
+
+323
+00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,320
+the power of difference
+we produce with our every act.
+
+324
+00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,240
+Hacker class struggle is not limited to computer programmers
+
+325
+00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:39,840
+but involves anyone who produces information, which means everyone.
+
+326
+00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,000
+With hacker class consciousness
+comes the response-ability of
+
+327
+00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,720
+using the power of information
+to abolish vectoralism
+
+328
+00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,480
+alongside all forms of domination
+that are non-consensual and exploitative.
+
+329
+00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,440
+Like Flavia Dzodan's feminism,
+
+330
+00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,000
+the revolutionary hack will
+be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
+