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- Hacker News
- I was able to read the first post, but now I'm getting connection refused... wtf
Edit: seems fine now, maybe we hit some connection limit? /shrug
by nubinetwork - I am out of the loop. Why are LLMs seen as fascist technology?
(I see arguments against “Open”AI / Anthropic but what about companies like Mistral?)
- After reading the post, I only see him calling it "fascist-backed technology" but not fascist in and of itself. Of course that too I think is highly debatable.
Interesting that he's OK using technology in general though, almost all of which is created from raw materials mined by forced/child labor. How is that not more important?
by majorchord - No freaking telling. I understand reasons why people might oppose AI, but fascism isn’t on that list.by kstrauser
- I'm pro LLM generally speaking, but LLMs are the most extreme version of corporatism you can imagine. Taking literal the entirety of human thought and existence, distilling it, and reselling it to you piecemeal with whatever god forsaken manipulation that corporations are likely to apply to it.
Look at the political landscape (in America) today, and why does government fail to serve its people? Because corporations by and large want to privatise everything because it gives them ever increasing power over people's lives. (so they agree to destroy institutions that have served people well)
Obviously Europe (yes, not a monoculture) and China are not immune, but it manifests itself in different ways that I am not really qualified to get into.
by altcognito - While this is a sentiment I agree with in isolation, it is odd to me to see all LLMs tarred with this particular brush:
> Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.
I would have expected the question of copyright over AI-authored work to be a critical failure point, however.
by ben_w - by pturing