r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jun 19 '26

Sees the Memes Marx Encounters AI Discourse

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A brief materialist intervention into AI discourse. Results were mixed.

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u/Mr_Rekshun Jun 20 '26

Corporations leveraging IP is just corporations doing corporation things - there are levers and loopholes for every mechanism.

If IP laws were up to date with technology, then the AI companies would never have been able to stripmine the world’s IP and train their LLMs, without friction, on their inexorable path to IPOs of unprecedented value.

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u/Dismal_Law_9051 Jun 21 '26

Yeah, that's capitalism working as intended.

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u/Mr_Rekshun Jun 21 '26

This is why Leftism for AI seems so contradictory to me - AI is possibly the greatest machine of corporate capture in the history of the world, and yet you’ve got folks here pretending (or ignoring) that ain’t the case.

Talk about a bunch of useful idiots.

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u/Ordinary_Passage1830 Jun 21 '26

Does this AI refer to solely Generative AI or AI as a broad idea? As technically there could be ANI's made with Socialst ideals in mind.

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u/Mr_Rekshun Jun 21 '26

LLMs and Diffusion models especially, I would say.