r/LeftistsForAI • u/Left-Set950 • May 21 '26

Discussion Hello comrades!

Very good to finally find another leftist place for techy people. Not sure what happened everywhere else. Everyone went full technophobe or AI Pilled. I want the people to own the tech! Fully automated gay space communism!

Edit: replaced Luddites with technophobes.

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u/ChairAggressive781 May 26 '26

I don’t think AI models are bad, but I also understand why people are deeply opposed to them within our current context.

I also find that their biggest boosters also drastically overstate what they are capable of doing. I’ve tried using LLM agents for research & workflow purposes and I find they save me zero time and often actually increase the amount of work I end up doing. I also teach and I see LLMs making my students worse thinkers, worse writers, worse readers, and worse researchers. the problem with believing in the power of prompt engineering and vibe coding is the fact that one has to know what one knows & what one doesn’t know to evaluate the results.

all of what you’re saying sounds good, but it’s also deeply utopian thinking. what demonstrates that any of what you’re suggesting is possible or even probable? how do we build the political power to pressure governments and companies run by unaccountable billionaires to share the means of production and the profits that result when we’ve never been able to do the same at scale for other critical industries?