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submitted 1 month ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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AI systems exist to reinforce and strengthen existing structures of power and violence. They are the wet dream of capitalists and fascists. Enormous physical infrastructure designed to convert capital into power, and back into capital. Those who control the infrastructure, control the people subject to it.

While it sways away from the initial thesis of how the use of LLMs could be detrimental to our very being and expression of identity - at least that's how I interpret what they're saying - it ends in a fantastic claim on how AI is a tool of the ruling class. Worth a read!

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I very much agree there, but think of how much worse it would be if we were stuck dealing with proprietary corporate tech instead.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh of course, I'm not saying we should dump open source, closed source is so much worse, it just sucks how much the great ethics of open source are exploited by those with no ethics.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Yup, and this is precisely why it was such a monumental mistake to move away from GPL style copyleft to permissive licenses. All that achieved was to allow corporations to freeload.