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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/37134271
In this text I want to analyze the relationship of fascism and what is called “AI” these days. Is this “technology” that keeps being used to reshape the world around us (for better or worse but dominantly worse) in some way connected to fascism? Or is it just something fascists like to use? Is it neutral?
AI is a pure product of fascism.
AI is built on massive data theft and mass surveillance, which can only happen with gigantic monopolistic Big Data corporations that have the wherewithal to carry out the theft and buy themselves the right politicians to do so in total impunity, or make themselves the indispensable partners of the fascist regime.
That’s the definition of fascism: state and private enterprise in cahoots.
And now AI is turning into a tool to repress the population and keep the regime in power.
Where are all the “copyright infringment isn’t theft” people now lol…
Appropriating the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity - even when it’s free - and reselling it in the form of a LLM is also theft.
Clearly not, because people still have their culture and heritage. Theft requires taking something so that the victim no longer has it.
At least that was the dubious moral justification of pirates back in the day. (Not saying I don’t pirate, I just never justified it through word games.)
Copyright is a fascist concept if anything tbh. I get that people dislike AI but can we stop pretending copyright has any legitimacy whatsoever
There was a theft, it just wasn’t intellectual property. It was a theft of the commons.
Its really strange when right-wing concepts get lumped in as to attack AI. It really seems counterintuitive.
Until those who use LLMs are compelled to use copyleft licenses due to the use of copylefted materials in training data, I don’t wanna hear it.
They took a tool that allowed us to fight Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, and fucking broke it.
This does not help free/libre software or creative commons works.
not quite. the frontier models get the most press but free open source local models are good. its where the future is and these big companies know it. its why they are trying to have them banned.
also, in the us, we indeed experiencing facism but what you stated is not the definition of facism. infact, state controlled enterprise is socialism
Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
Mussolini LITERALLY said that fascism could be corporatism because the state and corporations become one.
its interesting you care what Mussolini says, i dont. i did post the merrism-webster definition. its pretty straight forward.
That’s the problem with most people these day: they have an opinion on everything but know fuck-all about anything because education takes time off watching TV.
One could argument that Mussolini as the inventor of the word fascism knows best what he wanted to say with it, but at the same time do words and meanings change with time so… Complicated
Why Mussolini said it comes from it’s roots as a leftish political orientation and is quite good explained by reading the whole Wikipedia article to this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism