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Right? Why aren’t leftists embracing the environmentally-destructive mechanism the techbro billionaires are using to simultaneously enrich themselves and enslave humanity?
Aragorn was missing out on the power of the ring.
lol no… many leftists are very outspoken on AI, like my friends at Tech Workers Coalition
the article uses “Democratic Party” as a synonym of “leftist” 🙄
How high are you right meow?
Woof
No… No we’re good.
Is this some sort of rage/engagement bait? Lol
No thank you.
This whole article reads like copium
Good. We don’t want it.
I’ve yet to meet a single anti-AI person in real life. I’m starting to think it’s just a loud online minority that again makes the rest of the people on the left not daring to even admit to using it.
That’s called the black swan fallacy. “I’ve never personally seen it, therefore it’s not real.” That just sounds like cope and projection. You feel like this “loud minority” is preventing you from being so open about your love of AI, and so you pretend like everyone is secretly on your side.
If you were to get specific, people are generally receptive to very specific use cases, like tailor-made models for assisting medical diagnosis or security analysis of code. What people almost universally hate is the slop produced by generative AI, particularly in creative niches where what these machines produce isn’t art but a pale shade of it. Yet, these billionaires keep trying to shove GenAI down everyone’s throats at every turn, all the while ruining hobbies (see the RAM/SSD supply chain), livelihoods, health, rights (see Palantir; see who owns these tools), and the planet.
So yeah, if you don’t have a visceral reaction to someone shilling AI, I don’t believe you’re really that far left. The tools that broadly exist are not the tools of nor for the befit of the people.
I haven’t claimed it isn’t real. I haven’t claimed it’s stopping me from talking about it. I haven’t said I love AI. I’m not pretending people are on my side and I haven’t claimed to be on the left politically.
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Be honest. Did you have an LLM write that? Because boy howdy, does it read the way LLMs output text, right down to missing the point.
Regardless, in only one place did I mention climate change effects, and that was in passing as the last item in a list of issues with AI and LLMs in particular. That was on purpose.
You can throw out the environment as an argument entirely, and accept Andy Masley’s entire premise (I don’t), and AI still has much for which it needs to reckon.
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Funny, I know just as many anti-AI people in real life as very pro-AI people. It’s almost like there are all kinds of people in the world, and not everyone knows all of them.
I know several people just from work alone.
I work in enterprise IT for context.
Article claims leftists aren’t engaging with AI in a meaningful way.
It lists people and groups it disagrees with, and then… Doesn’t engage with those disagreements in a meaningful way.
I think you mean the “biden crime family”
I mean… Have you read the Dune prequels?
have you read
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Funnily enough, they were slop before slop was popular. With Herbert’s son cranking out an endless quantity of vapid simulacra of his fathers work for profit.
Can’t disagree.
The left? The right?
Progressiveness is defined by embracing change, sometimes to the fault of change for the sake of change. Conservatism is defined by embracing tradition, sometimes to the fault of rejecting change that benefits society.
However, some artists are politically left, and they don’t like AI because they say it steals their work.
I do agree those who take a moral stand against AI are putting themselves at a disadvantage to those who use it. Not everybody who is opposed to AI is in a position that would be improved with AI use, however. So there is that.
In American politics, I see the president doing dumb shit with AI (such as making himself appear as Jesus and healing Jeffrey Epstein) but we all know it’s AI and most people don’t take it seriously at all.
The progressive and conservative “movements” in the USA were named the same way Greenland was. By picking a word that would help appeal to low information folk.
Neither has any actual adherence to either change or tradition for the sake of such.
I always say; the terms aren’t useful in discussion or debate, but they’re great in a fight!
This is a great point. They’re vague concepts, used as shorthand to communicate someone’s philosophies in very broad strokes. They’re not philosophies or even true political movements in and of themselves.
