Commiunism

AI’s current form is shaped by capitalist interests just like most other technological advancement under this system, so it is in a way a byproduct of it, I agree. Still, a lot of the problematic parts that people complain about are consequences of the system’s inherent incentives, rather than something new AI creates.

The assertion that it’s some kind of a plot to destroy humanities such as arts is something I’ve always found to be questionable. Many Anti-AI people portray the creation of art as something people do purely for fun as a form of expression and different from labor, but that’s simply not true. Pretty much every artist has to rely on Patreon backers, commissions, streaming their process for donations to get by, there’s a direct incentive to draw what’s popular or makes money rather than what one wants to draw for fun. In other words, art has been commodified already which makes it no different from other kinds of labor and it is what AI art essentially tries to replace not unlike how textile mechanization replaced manual sewing for the masses. Despite that, hand-sewing for more niche clothes or items is still alive and well, and I doubt AI will end up killing off the purely-for-the-passion types of art, even if it sadly ends up decreasing the number of artists actively practicing their craft.

As for the ease of access, I fully agree - deepfakes, content for misinformation and the like have been on the internet for a while, and AI turbocharges the amount of these that can be produced making the situation much worse. It’s definitely one of the only good anti-AI arguments.

I swear, anti-AI people like this are the modern day reactionary Luddites.

It’s a pandora’s box that has been opened, you can’t simply just “Fight this! Stop telling them kill your soul!” - how does one fight AI exactly, by screaming into social media? Begging politicians to ban it or something even though the fundamental system we live in puts corporate interests above everything else (and for cases when they do go too far the best you can hope is a fine or some compromise)?

Also, it’s important to realize that all the evils attributed to the AI at the top aren’t inherent to the AI, but rather symptoms of our current system of commodity-production and wealth-accumulation. The blame is being pointed at the wrong thing here. let me give some examples:

• Slop isn’t inherent to the AI, low-effort content that’s quick to produce has been the meta of online content creation if one wants to maximize clicks/ad revenue for the labor used to create the video. Scams too - AI or no AI they’ve always been there. Sure, with AI there’s more of it but I argue the issue lies with slop and scams being viable in the first place. Same applies for the “Destroying the usable internet” point.

• Taking people’s jobs is part of technological advancement, and is a good thing given how that labor sector is now fully automated, meaning humans don’t need to work on it anymore and can use their gained time freely. However we live under Capitalism where this is a negative due to how fundamentally wages and skilled labor work. Be angry at the system for being nonsensical, not at a machine that alleviates labor.

• It’s accelerating climate change like any factory, and the problem comes not from the existence of the factory, but from the commodity model that leads to overproduction, and therefore creation of more CO2 than is necessary for human life to thrive.

• Misinformation and “Fascist” propaganda has existed without AI, and to even create it using AI there need to be people thinking about the message and spreading it - it’s not something AI can create autonomously and is rather a byproduct of liberal democratic system.

• Violation of privacy is up to social medias and governments, not AI’s.

Yet both are enemies of the workers, play into opportunism, the vast majority of their policies are dictated by business donors and maintain the system that most of us can agree is killing the planet and people. Any minor concessions (that have already been repealed by the way, wonder how that works /s) might make things a little bit comfortable, but is essentially nothing in comparison.

Stop rallying behind the puppets of capitalists, look past the liberal abstraction to see things for what they really are even if media says otherwise.

That’s because taking a side in the culture war, tactically or otherwise, accepts it as a legitimate fight rather than what it is - a bourgeoisie distraction meant to atomize/divide the working class.

The correct course of action is not to participate but to reframe it in materialist sense. Racism/sexism/transphobia are not some spontaneous personal moral failings but historical tools of capitalist social control used to split workers, super-exploit marginalized groups for increased profit, enforce traditional family structures to secure birthrates for future workers to be exploited.

However, given how mass media constantly reinforces the culture war through the narratives and repetition, how emotionally driven it is by design and how anti-capitalist left that recognizes this fact is but a small minority means you’ll hardly see this kind of analysis in the wild.

Not OSRS either, where Scythe is one of the most powerful mega-rare weapons