Political Memes

I know lemmy has a big hard on for anti-AI but a few things here:

1. AI is over 60 years old and includes things like machine learning. Not all AI is generative or large language models.
2. There is nothing fascist about running open AI (not "openAI") models on your own hardware and that's the future Cory Doctorow (mr "enshittification") makes in his latest book The Reverse-Centaurs Guide to Life After AI. Basically he theorizes when the AI bubble collapasses it will be terrible but it will shift AI into the hands of consumers and allow people to use AI to do work for them, rather than their bosses using AI to replace workers.
3. Does using facial recognition against ICE count as fascism?

There are many legitimate criticisms against AI, especially generative models, but this ain't one

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 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.

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?

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..?

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

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

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

TIL that technology can have political opinions.

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.

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.

The weapon is dehumanizing others and it's a weapon that gets used pretty often here.

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

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

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