Im not saying any of those things. I went to great lengths to express explicitly and through use of historical parallel that what people are angry about is an attempt to cut them out of the productive process and reduce the quality of their lives.

the examples you tried to put in my mouth are laughable and betray a deep misunderstanding of history.

scriveners existed alongside printers for a hundred years that i know of for myriad reasons and still exist today. there was a tradition of offering both longhand and printed services at shops and during the expansion of the printing press one way that scriveners dealt with the new technology was by writing letters for people and performing recording duties at events. if what you said was true we simply wouldn’t see longhand documents after 1500.

a better parallell with automobiles would be coachbuilders, but of course cars didn’t come with bodies for seven decades during which you’d go to the coachbuilder and have a custom coach built to your specification on top of the rolling chassis. that’s still done today for heavy equipment and specialty stuff. if we wanted to take the traditional turn of phrase it’d be that the internal combustion engine put buggywhip makers out of business overnight but that process actually took the better part of fifty years. even though the market for whips dried up over that time, whip makers were skilled producers of leather goods, and found plenty of work some of which was in the outfitting of the cars themselves. we can look at the production records of these various industries and see that it took decades for these changes to happen and they didn’t amount to an upending of the labor relation.

the last example you use is just absurd. the electronic word processor found a market even as computers in offices rose to dominance over electronic typewriters specifically because they were simpler and cheaper than computers and allowed administrative staff to handle digital files and formats. even today secretaries use the computer to perform a variety of duties that would have been done in the past with typewriters, carbon copy machines and electronic word processors. those jobs didn’t go away, they were intensified. If what you said was true there would be a drop in secretary jobs when the word processor comes out, or when the word processing software suite comes out. as it turns out, secretary jobs don’t peak till 2015. so something different is going on there. it’s worth noting that everyone classifies secretaries and administrative assistants together, so if youre using the definition from the 40s then you might have a point.

and again, i never said any of those things, i’m just bushwacking your crappy arguments to pluck the low hanging fruit that the person conflating things here is you.

I have consistently held that the use of the open internet to train models that will be used to sell generative services is theft of the commons in the same way as the enclosures. I also drew a parallel between the people calling AI theft now and the luddites of yore.

you even acknowledged this fact by saying it’s like theft of labor.