“Ultimately, I don’t want to do PR for this research lab, the AI company running it or the VCs funding this experiment,” the artist said, noting that they purposely avoid using AI and continue to oppose it for environmental reasons. “These people have the money and time to make San Francisco a better place, instead they are putting us through their AI experiments that ultimately serve only themselves.”

“This is not the technological progress I was promised,” Lebedev added. “I want technology that helps humans flourish, not technology that bosses them around in this dystopian economic hellscape.”