(Christian Tieber hat eine deutsche Übersetzung des Textes angefertigt: “KI” als faschistisches Artefakt. Vielen Dank Christian!) (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. […]

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?

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
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      19 days ago

      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.

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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        18 days ago

        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.)