I imagine any historic materialist seeing this meme cringing so hard. Thanks for this comment so I can feel less insane about, you know, not swallowing idealistic imaginary nonsense.

AI is analogous to guns... how? Just because this meme is about Batman snapping a gun in half?

As for your other point, AI means those machine learning models that keep eating up all the electricity and water and computer parts we can feed them and making places near where datacenters are built worse places to live and allowing bosses to fire creative workers because while their output may be worse, it's a lot cheaper, and encouraging their users to confide in them and being sycophantic and deliberately giving them an outsized opinion of their own abilities and whose makers are endeavouring to promote as a substitute for human connection with a worrying degree of success.

most people don't really use them

Lol. Lmao. Roflmfao. ChatGPT's monthly active user count is triple the population of the United States. People are asking LLMs for meal plans, exercise routines, recipes, write greeting cards for them, do their school essays for them because they think it's a better writer than they are, bouncing ideas off it to see if they're good (yikes!), you name it they're doing it.

Also more than half the flyers going up around my university are obviously AI generated.

Then use it, maybe get one of those Chinese models and hack the fash into oblivion! Don't use it to generate AI slop propaganda, either in text of image form, you're just eventually signing off your writing and art skills to the machines, and especially big tech.

You know what AI means, don't play dumb.

AI is owned and used by major corporations and has horrible effects on pretty much everything, so people using it for "revolutionary" purposes are just giving more power to the powers that be.

Also, like, a real human writes lines for Batman. So a real person can be quoted for that line.