“AI” as we use the term today is build on fascist ideas. Is structurally supportive of fascist thinking.
(Original title: AI as a Fascist Artifact)
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@tante fascists also drive cars and use computers
@tante this article is really inspiring. Question is, how do we fight back. I say we have turn their nethod against them. If they rake away our economic foundation, take away theirs. Don't forget that workers are the majority and in principle can dictate the rules. If their modells are based on theft, force them to lay open their training data before they nay commercialise the modells
@tante I somehow prefer the category "totalitarian". Totalitarian is problem even if the ideology is not outright fascist.. which is vague category, as not every fascism is exactly nazi-flavored, and democracy at war resembles fascism in more than one aspect (this is why democracies should try to avoid wars, except defending themselves)
Big tech is definitely totalitarian in a sense, that you have no other option than to publish on their platforms and get scrapped by AI. While the alternatives are not outright censored yet, they soon will be (age checks, anonymity denial and lot of other obstacles, including higher, uncompetive costs for alternate providers)
Monopoly and totalitarianism overlap, because purely economical monopoly usually requires it political branch to protect the monopoly. So while I don't like AI and its consequences, I would argue: it may be in a way worse, than some mild fascism: it may be more like society ran by some drug dealing cartel. But it is also something different.
Whatever it really is, it is also new face of totalitarianism, especially because all these thesis about "inevitability". But just like with drugs, it is not about "just say no to AI", but I think we need to think about some alternative to AI. Like alternate way for humans to handle communications, information, computing.
Dreaming about good, old times (which were never really there or not for everyone, or so) would be actually ... fascist. Just saying "von Neumann architecture must be enough for everybody" is... not the way to go.
We need to understand what is happening. Fascism was powered by new media of its era: radios, which reached even people who were not reading newspapers. Radios transmitted emotions, not just words
AI is disconnection our friends from... us, connecting them to machine. But this already happened many times before (radio, TV, computer gaming...). In a way, it is nothing new, just immensely power hungry...
