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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
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I mean, technology will be used to oppress workers under capitalism. That is why Marxists fundamentally reject capitalist relations. However, given that people in the west do live under capitalism currently, the question has to be asked whether this technology should be developed in the open and driven by community or owned solely by corporations. This is literally the question of workers owning their own tools.
It already is, as far as I'm aware. The issue that I'm having is the idea of it being framed as a technology we as Marxists can co-opt. If it has it's uses in coding or for projects within Marxism, sure, but as far as I'm concerned I don't really see a valid use in integrating it as it exists within parties or politically other than data storage/organization..which I imagine there is better options for that. Maybe in the future, though.
As long as capitalism exists, I don't think we "own" any tools without a proper worker's party to enforce regulations and protect workers in the West. That is the reason I brought up China. I have no objections to open-source alternatives though, but I don't think us developing open-source tools is going to stop the majority of the use of this tool harming workers. Hence my issue with the idea of "owning it". We certainly can use it though.
The only way to know whether a particular technology has application is by keeping up with it and by using it. I see plenty of people confidently regurgitate misconception about this tech because they either haven't actually tried using it, or they haven't kept up with the latest iterations of it.
Meanwhile, we absolutely can own tools under capitalism. This has nothing to do with a worker party enforcing anything. This is about people doing the work to create tools by the workers and for the workers. Lemmy itself is an example of this. The same type of tool can be in the hands of corporations and the workers. There's no contradiction here.
There is even a Nicaraguan news channel that uses AI to produce quality content -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34HOEGO4Vg
Ah, it is very exhausting to see so many trolls attack you through this thread. Wish you the best Yogthos and you are doing great work.
Thanks for for the kind words, and that's a really good application of this tech actually that's making it possible to produce quality content on a budget.
Have you read about Firebase Studio?
That's another interesting application of the AI. From any walks of life(hairdressers, junior devs, restaurant owners) could use it to create a simple app and put it online. Wish to have your thoughts on that one.
I've heard of it, but haven't had a chance to actually try it out. The concept does seem reasonable on the surface though. I think an interactive feedback loop is really critical for this sort of stuff, where the user can ask the agent to build a feature, then can try it out and see that it does what they need, and iterate on that.
A lot of the apps people need are very simple in nature, there tends to be some input form, to collect data, and then some visualization to display data, and talking to some endpoints to send out emails or whatever. It doesn't need to be beautiful or hyper efficient, just needs to work well enough to solve a problem a particular person has. Currently, unless you're a dev you'd have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for somebody to build even a simple app for you. This kind of stuff has the potential to lower that barrier dramatically.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: