@stairjoke Democracy requires regulation and bureaucracy. These things can be overdone and often are overdone in grotesque ways, but a minimum level of them is nevertheless required to prevent enemies of democracy from undermining democracy and hijacking it.

Proponents of "AI" are saying all this bureaucracy is inefficient and needs to be cut. And to be replaced by a LLM. Who needs rules for democratic governance anymore when you can just ask the machine god what it thinks? After all, LLMs don't have an ideology, unlike humans, right? They were trained on data instead of emotions and just tell you what the hard data says, without ideology. Right? Wrong! The vast training corpi of LARGE language models are full of biases and ideologies. You cannot avoid it in corpi that large. And fascists are using this technology to come up with anything, to create a mythical past to which we need to return. Like the story of the "First Reich" and "Second Reich" that Goebbels sold to Germans and which resulted in the Third Reich.

You could argue that fascists eat bread, so aren't bread making machines inherently fascist? No. LLMs though are used to devalue all labor and deskill laborers, and to concentrate power in the hands of the few who have the vast resources required to train the LLMs, which goes completely against democracy.

In their world, nobody has power anymore and everyone needs to rent from them if they need labor to be done. Sam Altman said this himself.

Doing away with democratic processes and governance and accountability in the name of "efficiency". Make everyone addicted to LLMs. And then have figures like Elon Musk or whoever change the parameters to produce child porn or fascist indoctrination.

This doesn't change when you replace the specific LLM providers I mentioned with others (even non-US ones).

Wenzel, your view alas is very naive.

By the way, OpenClawd of which even its creator says maybe it was a mistake to create it, was created by an Austrian guy, Peter Steinberger. It's not an "American" phenomenon.

@marcel For your next book, may I suggest "Resisting AI" by Dan MacQuillan? Then you will have a better understanding of why you received a shitstorm.