Danielle Foré2d ago
At the end of the day, AI is a technology for people who like the idea of owning other people. That’s what makes it inherently misogynistic, inherently racist, and inherently fascist. It is an accelerated extraction and exploitation device
Show threadMattyWS2d ago

@danirabbit I cannot disagree more.

If that's where someones mind goes when they collaborate AI while thinking of them as if they were a person then I feel sorry for that someone...

But regardless, AI isn't people. You can't enslave an AI any more or less than you could enslave a lamp and treating AI like the tool that it is does not make you sexist, facist or misogynistic.

I'd go as far as to say you're downplaying actual horrible people by comparing things like facism to using an AI.

Show threadJay2d ago

@mattyws @danirabbit LLMs aren’t people, but those who made the art that companies stole and aim to profit from are.

LLMs aren’t people, but the communities whose water sources are being diverted to supply data centers are full of people.

LLMs aren’t people, but those workers fired while bosses eat their salaries and call it progress are people.

LLMs are tools that are designed to extract resources from people hidden from their users. Using them is not an amoral choice.

Show threadMattyWS2d ago
@WhiteCatTamer @danirabbit I wasn't saying anything to the contrary
Show threadJay
@mattyws @danirabbit If you accept that the point of LLMs - not the hypothetically perfect FOSSified AI that someone’s brother is running in his garage using solar energy and training solely on works in the public domain, the kind that is being thrust into every sphere of life by companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars - is to extract talent and wealth from the masses by sheer force of economic momentum, then you would not call LLMs “just a tool”, which is contrary.
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