RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116337461606384177

From the shared article:

"But folks annoyed by online animosity toward AI need to remember it's an extension of justified rage at the extraction class' grotesque enabling of the literal destruction of democracy. That rage is going to prove extremely helpful in the months and years to come, and deserves a wide berth."

@pythonbynight That's great. One interesting thread of conversations lately has been along the lines of "How might this tech have played out differently in a non-authoritarian governmental climate?"

@ehmatthes It's hard to say.

I believe much of the capital power in tech is held by individuals with eugenicist/misogynistic views of the world (both historically and currently)--which means that disenfranchised voices have always been pushed out.

Research has existed pre-LLMs about how algorithms are biased in harmful ways (i.e., Weapons of Math Destruction), and that's been over a decade seeing those effects.

@ehmatthes Those things aside, I could see use cases where researcher input and effective guardrails provide us with a way to use the technology to better understand biases within systems, and how to better rectify inherent and institutionalized systems that have historically affected marginalized groups.

Perhaps the trajectory with technology, it would be similar to what we have now, except maybe a little slower, and more conscious of labor rights.

Maybe in that world, employers wouldn't be forcing these tools on their workers....