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Most developers using AI/LLMs use corporate owned LLM's, not local models (and almost certainly never a local model that is trained in a way to not introduce legal plagiarism into a FLOSS project).
Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of the big tech companies that host them (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are owned by right-wing CEO's who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated and receive lucritive government contracts. Many of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.
That's still not fascism.
Also, your logic is flawed: Some CEOs are right wing, so they would be willing to support fascism (because as we know, right wing = fascism)
In my opinion CEOs of most tech companies are just opurtunistic.
If a corporation helping a fascist government surveil and detain citizens in opposition to the government securing more totalitarian power isn't fascist then... What would you consider fascist behavior?
This doesn't mean all corporations are like that
Most are operated by sociopaths and psychopaths.
Assuming it is true, it doesn't mean that they're all fascist.
Did you watch it? It compares corporations itself to psychopaths, it's nowhere said that CEOs/upper management are psychopaths.
Opportunistic people supporting fascism and actual fascist true believers are indistinguishable in how they behave, right? The only difference would be if/when fascism is no longer an opportunity to make money.