People figured out how to make statistical inferences smart enough to write kinda like humans and do a bunch of other things really really well. We would ignore them at our own peril.

Accepting their output as a replacement for human art and expression is another matter entirely.

I don't think AI is anti-ethical or fascist per se. As many argued here, you can run it locally, you can train it on public data sets, etc.

But there is another problem that is hardly mentioned. Let's call it a culturally negative feedback loop. AI is different from any other tool because it pretends to be an universal tool. It can generate music, pictures, videos, text, code. If we as a society outsource all those skills to automatisation, there's a real danger we unlearn those skills.

I hate clankers as much as the next person, and providing money to war profiteering should obviously be avoided with great priority...

But really? This is a wild comparison on so many levels. There are ways to use AI ethically, and there are ways to use it unethically, amd blinding yourself to that conversation is willful ignorance.

Remember that time Hitler didn't trust atomic bomb research because it was "Jew technology" that was awesome for the world.

This post is a little silly. Weapons like swords, guns, etc are the original fascist weapons.

Fascists didnt invent AI, Gen AI or LLMs. They are just using them, selling and making money with it.

Same with cars. Fascists didnt invent the car or EVs. They are just using them, selling and making money with it.

But you wouldnt call someone out for driving with their car to a antifascist protest, would you?

Aren't they taking a loss on every AI operation? Like a big loss. So use enough, especially free versions, and you will drive them to bankruptcy. Lol

So no using guns either. Got it.

Sometimes I think these are righties just trying to limit the left's ability to push back.

PS the phone or pc you're using alongside the internet service in 99% of cases originates from inhumane and ostensibly fascist origins that rape the lands, use major server farms (data centers), and exploit cheap labor, and advances oligarchies. Better brick them, right..?

I've become a doomer when it comes to AI at this point. Even if we in the US stops the development of AI, China will push and improve the technology regardless and then overtime as every other country adopts it, we will be technologically behind. My only hope is that AI gets properly regulated, but we already opened pandora's box, it's not going away. I now better emphize with the people in the 1890s opposing machinery that automated their jobs though, since that's a similar position to where we are at. So yeah, I'm both a climate AND an AI doomer at this point

Batman The Dark Knight Returns is probably the best comic

TIL that technology can have political opinions.

In a war where losing means living under fascism and imperialism, where we fight for freedom and our very right to exist, we need to consider every tool at our disposal—even those used by our oppressors.

When they are willing to rig elections, run disinformation campaigns, and use violence and terror tactics on their own citizens, we can't afford to quibble over which tactics make us feel good. That's what it means to fight for our lives.

Use tech or fund tech like Zig Programming language, Haiku OS , NetBSD which have Anti AI policies

You can run you own models on your own computer using KolboldAI.

There's nothing innately fascist with GAN and Neural Network technology.

This “purism” is the reason why they keep winning. Letting only them using the most powerful tech humanity ever made is just like not voting for Harris because of Gaza. Look the mess we are now. How much we need to lose to stop this purism?

There is no such thing as "fascist technology". Technology is just a tool. It can be used for good or evil.

The machine gun was an imperialist and fascist technology of oppression. But call it a Kalashnikov and it becomes a tool for liberation.

Do not listen to neoliberal fuckai morons. Think for yourself what tools you can use or not. If machine generated AI slop is indistinguishable from real human "art", then it was never art but human slop to begin with. What generations of rom-coms and participation trophies does to a people's ego.

Push for meaningful regulation of AI instead of endless whining and villifying people like e.g. non-capitalist china does: https://regulations.ai/regulations/china-summary

It is such a liberal thing to take a byproduct of capitalist exploitation and turn it into its own political expression

What about rockets? 🤔

"AI = fascist?" Come on, let's not dilute the term "fascist" to mean "anything I don't like." THAT kind of thinking is the weapon of the enemy!

Guns and Muscles are fascist too! Fighting is fascist.