i was under the impression that were explicitly against genAI but i found that some people are actually VERY pro genai and quite dismissive of its risks. this happened on lemmy but i saw people getting downvoted for saying that genAI in its current state is harmful to the environment. i saw the old bullshit of how ”i use AI for art because i cant draw”, it was crazy. i called someone a Promptitute and someone unironically told me not to say that, just so much. so can everybody pls affirm you dont support that crap.
another user straight up admitted that they use AI as a friend and to gn to… i dont care how much we have in common ideologically, i cant support you gning to chatgpt and thinking its your friend…
GenAI is a tool. Under capitalism, the current dialectic is defined by the enclosure of the cognitive commons: tech monopolies hoard the “means of computation,” accelerate ecological destruction via powerhungry data centers in a fossil energy dominated political economy, and use llms to deskill and lay off the working class to protect profit margins.
But these contradictions are also the cracks where alternatives can grow. The leftist response shouldn’t be Luddism imo. We must fight to decommodify compute (e.g. via promotion of open-source), demand worker control over AI integration to prevent deskilling and layoffs in various fields, and enforce strict ecological limits on data centers. Ultimately, our goal is to sublate AI from a mechanism of capitalist immiseration into a collective tool for post-scarcity and human liberation. Anyone who says llms aren’t useful is kidding themselves imo