The easing of the mental burden of care work has been a key strategy in advertising LLMs. The burden of writing a sympathetic message to a friend or creating a schedule.

Burdened by unpaid rote physical tasks, with no remaining brainpower to care for our loved ones/ourselves, we automate the care

@jennydenbow.bsky.social unpacks this abandonment and devaluation of reproductive labor in her book, wherein neoliberalism and the fetishization of tech innovation exist alongside and through this degradation of feminized labors