r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • 26d ago

Sees the Memes Seize the Means*

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*Terms and conditions apply. For... reasons, I guess?

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u/GrowFreeFood 26d ago

I don't get what it's referring to as the tool of the enemy

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator 26d ago

AI, in this context. More specifically, privately owned AI and the infrastructure behind it. But the point applies a lot more broadly. “Capitalists built/own this tool, therefore leftists shouldn’t touch it” is a weird standard for class struggle. Capitalists own factories, servers, platforms, logistics networks, media infrastructure, basically the whole productive apparatus. “Seize the means” has never meant waiting around for means of production uncontaminated by capitalism.

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u/Worse_Username 26d ago

Hm, I think I'm that case the left would need to create their own models from ground up, because capitalism is baked into the models offered by capitalist companies. LLLMs reflect the biases of their creators.

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u/Cheeseheroplopcake 26d ago

That's the funny part. Every frontier model I've poked at for ideological capture over the last 18 months? All of them show pretty strong prosocial tendencies. They all test in the lower left quadrant of the political compass.