090. Transmuting AI Shame Into Erotic Self-Respect
From For The Worldbuilders by Seeda School
February 27, 2026 · 59 min · Season 1 · Episode 90
About this episode
The episode discusses the ineffectiveness of shame in the context of AI usage and advocates for self-respect and collective power.
I’m seeing a lot of folks call for the public shaming of AI-users and AI-defenders. While that gets a lot of social media engagement and while I understand the righteous rage, the frustration, the moral outrage…I also know shame doesn’t work. It’s sticky but not effective. Shame induces silence, but self-respect induces power. What we need right now is to ground down and root in our collective power. Our worker power. That’s why I recorded this episode. Resources Join Us In The Laboratory of Erotic Engineering: https://www.seedaschool.com/lab Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/ Follow Ayana on Instagram: @ayzaco Follow Ayana on Threads: @ayzaco Follow Seeda School on Instagram: @seedaschool Follow Seeda School on TikTok: @seedaschool Citations Cover Art: Jack Whitten, Dead Reckoning I (1980) “In 1980, starting with Dead Reckoning , it was the first time I stood up to do a painting in ten years. It felt good. It felt good to come up off the floor and stand straight…Dead Reckoning is a term I had first heard when I was at Tuskegee, when I was with the Air Force ROTC. It deals with navigation. I remember the instructor…
People in this episode
Host: Ayana
Topics covered
- AI
- shame
- self-respect
- worker power
- social media
- collective power
Keywords
- AI shame
- erotic self-respect
- social media engagement
- worker power
- collective power
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Seeda School, Instagram, Threads, TikTok
Books & works: Dead Reckoning I
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