Hey comrades I wanted to ask a question about generative ai. There was an interview recently on breadtube and I have linked the video if you want to watch the interview. Essentially from my understanding what happened is that a prominent youtuber was being evicted and evaded that because of a notice generated by chatgpt and like it is good she is housed but she went to like advocate for its use on the left while still talking about its damages which feels very wrong because it seems she knows the harms but she still wants to use it. My question is, aside running independent models and making our own models, what is the function a tech built upon stolen labour, polluting the earth, and destroying livelihoods. LLMs themselves yea can be good, ML can be good, AI can be good, but chatgpt? I don’t think chatgpt being the product the world it is can ever be good. It is built upon stolen labour and runs on scarce water of poor communities.
On top of that it doesn’t even automate jobs well, it only increases work of correcting it’s errors but it gives capitalists more control over lives of people they employee so it is a good deal for them. There’s a reason coal was adopted so fast when water wheel powered textiles were far more efficient. Coal gave capitalists more power.