Christine Lemmer-WebberSubmitted without commentary: "AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web" by Mike Masnick https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
this is just slopaganda
slopaganda (n): promoting using AI generated tools to worsen your life and everyone's life around you
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers@cwebber But is it that, though?
Or are people still looking at it from a reactionary point of view?
Are people using this technology in ways that it shouldn’t have been intended because it was sold to them by people who wanted to maximize profit by any means necessary.
This is like saying that HTML is the devel because Palantir uses it to code their websites.
It’s like saying the compass is evil because that’s how the slave ships navigated the Atlantic Ocean.
Kwaze Kwaze@majorlinux @cwebber But it's not anything like your analogies.
It's getting pissed at the use of textiles made from slave labor, not the compasses navigating slave ships.
It's getting pissed at using frameworks directly integrated with Palantir's ecosystem, not HTML
It's getting pissed at asbestos being put in the walls despite indications it might not be all that safe. Except the asbestos exacerbates fires rather than retarding them.
Marsh Ray@kwazekwaze @majorlinux @cwebber I figure that humanity’s probably doomed by this technology and I expect to be first in line.
I am begging y’all to come up with some less hyperbolic analogies and proposals other than abstinence-only.
@marshray We’re only in this mess because we’ve allowed these tech bros to do everything they want with relative impunity.
It’s about time we finally hold them accountable.
What we’ve done up to this point has not been enough.
@majorlinux It does not appear to me that Western “tech bros” have dominant control of this technology.
Development of first-rate models of all sizes is being funded by governments and investors around the world.
Development of first-rate models of all sizes is being funded by governments and investors around the world.
@marshray You sure about that? The US government, while being funded mostly by the working class, has decisions made by those who sit at the very top.
The policy makers are put there by the billionaire class and their lobbyists who do not craft policy for us, but for the capitalists to further enrich themselves.
This is the same for all of Western “democracy”.
We have never been in charge of anything in this country despite what our high school civics classes told us.
@majorlinux Yeah, totally.
But what I’m saying is that a lot of AI research is being done outside the US. Particularly big in PRC China, but most governments are funding it to some degree.
Try a web search for “AI model benchmarks” or similar. Here’s a query for benchmark results, mostly of *open source* models: https://huggingface.co/datasets?benchmark=benchmark%3Aofficial
There’ll be several non-US names (Qwen, Deepseek, Mistral, etc.) near the top.
IMO, Anthropic, OpenAI, the US ‘tech bros’ may have a lead (if any) measured in months, not years. Shutting them down won’t stop the technology.
