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AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented (www.commondreams.org)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Only if you don’t consider capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kinda like people focusing on petty crime and ignoring the fact that corporations steal billions from us.

We as a society give capitalism such a blanket pass, that we don’t even consider what it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

When you live in a cage, you think of the bars as part of your home.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Hot take: what most people call AI (large language and diffusion models) is, in fact, part of peak capitalism:

  • relies on ill gotten gains (training data obtained without permission, payment or licensing)
  • aims to remove human workers from the workforce within a system that (for many) requires them to work because capitalism has removed the bulk of social safety netting
  • currently has no real route to profit at any reasonable price point
  • speculative at best
  • reinforces the concentration of power amongst a few tech firms
  • will likely also result in regulatory capture with the large firms getting legislation passed that only they can provide “AI” safely

I could go on but hopefully that’s adequate as a PoV.

“AI” is just one of cherries on top of late stage capitalism that embodies the worst of all it.

So I don’t disagree - but felt compelled to share.