Linux. The mobile ecosystem will have to mature fast though.

There dies the last remaining reason to use Android.

if you’ve ever sent a nude, they probably can.

PeerTube is what he should have said.

This is a subconscious thing, not an explicit belief.

You read correctly. Just wanted to clarify for posterity. :)

I haven’t seen any comments here that adequately address the core of the issue from a leftist perspective, so I will indulge.

LLMs are fundamentally a tool to empower capital and stack the deck against workers. This is a structural problem, and as such, is one that community efforts like FOSS are ill-equipped to solve.

Given that training LLMs from scratch requires massive computational power, you must control some means of production. i.e. You must own a server farm to scrape publicly accessible data or collect data from hosting user services. Then you must also own a server farm equipped with large arrays of GPUs or TPUs to carry out the training and most types of inference.

So the proletariat cannot simply wield these tools for their own purposes, they must use the products that capital allows to be made available (i.e. proprietary services or pre-trained “open source” models)

Then comes the fact that the core market for these “AI” products is not end users; it is capitalists. Capitalists who hope their investments will massively pay off by cutting labor costs on the most expensive portion of the proletariat: engineers, creatives, and analysts.

Even if “AI” can never truly replace most of these workers, it can convince capitalists and their manager servants to lay off workers, and it can convince workers that their position is more precarious due to pressure from the threat of replacement, discouraging workers for fighting for increased pay and benefits and better working conditions.

As is the case with all private private property, profits made by “AI” and LLM models will never reach the workers that built those models, nor the users who provided the training data. It will be repackaged as a product owned by capital and resold to the workers, either through subscription fees, token pricing, or through forfeiture of private data.

Make no mistake, once the models are sufficiently advanced, tools sufficiently embedded into workflows, and the market sufficiently saturated, the rug will be pulled, and “enshittification” will begin. Forcing workers to pay exorbitant prices for these tools in a market where experience and skills are highly commoditized and increasingly difficult to acquire.

The cherry on top is that “AI” is the ultimate capital. The promise of “AI” is that capitalists will be able to use the stolen surplus value from workers to eliminate the need for variable capital (i.e. workers) entirely. The end goal is to convert the whole of the proletariat into maximally unskilled labor, i.e. a commodity, so they can be maximally exploited, with the only recourse being a product they control the distribution of. AI was never going to be our savior, as it is built with the intent of being our enslaver.

This is exactly the type of thing ZDL was criticizing. I don’t think siphoning energy towards a Democratic Party PAC is what they had in mind when talking about doing something.

It steals from the copyright holders in order to make corporate AI money without giving back to the creators.

This is a liberal criticism, not a leftist one. Leftists do not believe in private property, let alone expanding private property to include ideas as “intellectual property”

A leftist framing of this critique is that one of the primary objectives of LLMs is to bring publicly accessible information, i.e. the commons, into the realm of private property, where one must exchange one’s personal data (read: power) to access what already exists in the commons.

Namely, the scraping required for LLM training can be considered exploitation of workers for profit. Workers or volunteers created, wrote, organized, or edited the content. Content that is now used to generate a profit, profit that the workers never see a penny of. This content is repackaged and sold back to the workers.

It is however running a Qualcomm modem firmware you can’t control and is phoning home, regardless of your GrapheneOS settings, with your GPS coordinates and other data you can’t read, at any time.

Can you expand upon this?

Do the 1100 extrajudicial murders per year and the world’s largest prison population not count for anything?

I haven’t voted to confirm Trump’s nominees

Way to throw disabled people under the bus because you aren’t clever enough to find another way to insult their intelligence.

Also using the phrase “civilized people” makes you sound like you’d fit in with the other Republicans.

Find a searx / searxng instance or run one yourself! Depending on corporate software will continue to be a cat and mouse game.

That “foreign aid” was literally genocide fuel.

2008 was the last legitimate democratic primary

I’m surprised you dont.

Exchange isn’t extraction. If you’re buying raw materials from Africa, yes. If you’re buying finished goods from China, no.

This is precisely why the US had a sudden about face about China. They were hoping their entryism with capitalist exchange would result in the fall of the communist party, who number one priority is preventing the plundering of resources through unequal exchange.

It is the communist vernacular way of saying you’re a dumbass. Not Chinese in origin

The whole point is to say fuck you to America for banning their app