The art on the header seems AI? Will AI run the anrchoworld of the future?

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Will AI run the anrchoworld of the future?

    Hell no. We will decide our own fates. “No gods, no masters” applies to machine masters too.

    Anarchists do not have a universal position on if, or to what extent, “AI” will play a role in our future, although we all agree, by virtue of our shared anarchism, that “AI” will not be dictating our future to us. My personal views are that:

    1. I reject the terminology “AI” because these systems are not intelligent in the ways that people and some animals are. Using this term gives power to the capitalists who currently control the most powerful of these systems. I prefer a term like “large language model driven system” for the current class of large scale generative language algorithms, e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and the various local LLM models. (The “driven” part refers to what “AI” companies call “agentic” systems, i.e. LLMs are usually part of a bigger system that is capable of taking real actions…but “agentic” is also capitalist marketing that attempts to say that these machines have agency like sentient beings do.)
    2. Because LLM driven systems are not intelligent, they cannot be held accountable for the actions they take. The responsibility lies with the human(s) operating the LLM driven system.
    3. LLM driven systems can be incredibly helpful for people who choose to work in highly technical fields, in particular coding and mathematics, with the caveat that hallucination is a mathematically inevitable systematic characteristic of these machines. In particular, I use LLMs as a LaTeX assistant.
    4. LLM driven systems have been deployed at an ecologically unsustainable pace and forced upon the proletariat, who mostly do not want or need these systems.
    5. The majority of LLM systems are controlled by the capitalist class and, like everything controlled by the capitalist class, must be expropriated by the proletariat. A small way of fighting back against capitalist centralization is to run your own LLMs if you have the hardware and the technical need for a LLM.
    6. I personally am basically completely disinterested in imagery generated by image generation models without further refinement by a sentient being. No disrespect to people who like generating images on your own machines, if that makes you happy then more power to you, but it’s not my cup of tea. I personally value the continuous input of a real sentient being like myself in the art I consume.
    7. I would support replacing the header art in this community with a human-made image, although I don’t feel that strongly either way. Even if it wasn’t AI, it’s been that image for a long time, so I think we’re due an update. I think I’ve said this every time it’s come up, but I don’t think anyone has ever proposed a banner image in response. I’m not a mod so don’t ask me lol, and even if I was, I would not unilaterally change the banner art without checking with the community about it.
    8. I write all my comments and posts on Lemmy with my autistic meat brain without LLM assistance because it is fun to do so. Yes, I actually write like this 😆