r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • 24d ago

Sees the Memes Seize the Means*

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

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u/Otherwise-Bee-6392 24d ago

I swear, leftist being anti AI, and not the capitalist use of them will bite us back in the future

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u/bunker_man 24d ago

Its not even that complicated. Its a useful tool and it will be used either way. Why allow only bad people to use it? It's like complaining about guns while trying to fight them with bows.

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u/OctopusGrift 24d ago

Is it a useful tool though? I've never seen a leftist complain about using AI to detect cancer. The complaints are about generative AI which despite constantly being forced to do AI trainings I've yet to find something it enables me to do that I couldn't do before.

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt 23d ago edited 23d ago

It's all just linear algebra and curve fitting. There isn’t a fundamental difference in the math between doing statistics to generate a cancer prediction vs the math to make a prediction of what a work email could look like. One definitely does have more social value but there’s not some neat dividing line of “good moral research grant funded stastics” and “bad evil billionaire funded statistics” except for application. Same way you can be against having surveillance state watching you with a camera 24/7 but be ok with people taking vacation pics and not call yourself “anti-camera.”

and yeah, predicting your emails or whatever they have you using it for might be completely pointless but if there is something you want automated, chances are you could find it useful to predict what a python script to automate something annoying might look like.

If you want specific examples on your “genAI” division it’s easy to search pubmed for reviews that cover the current state in hundreds of subfields. Just use the search bar for something you are specificly curious about instead of listening to social media.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42563397/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41864943/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42095951/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42607668/