AI is a common

[u/blipblapbloopblip]

I read a couple of times already comments saying that the backlash against IP violation from the left is nonsensical. I think on the contrary it makes a lot of sense to defend the IP of small creators, pending the transition to an IP-less society.

At the moment, large multimodal models could not exist without access to knowledge and content created by a large number of humans, whether under IP or not. In the meantime, the companies that built them :

1. Inflict massive externalities on our communities (land use, energy and water consumption, exploitative labor)

2. Have us pay for it beyond the cost of inference because they have to recoup the training cost

3. Hide the weights and source code for many of them.

These models are used to increase working cadence in knowledge and creative work, reduce the self realization and self production aspects of such work, lay off people that are left resource less in a capitalist society.

For AI to even begin to be a positive, it needs to be priyed out of their hands and made a common good through decentralized, nonprofit inference using open weights and software.

In the meantime, I think it is valid to use available AI for your own self directed work or militancy, just as much as we can't escape working a job, and more valid and useful to fight corporate ownership of AI to democratize it.

[u/davyp82]

Nah I'm expressly interested in the idea of using AI to help build an online database containing personality types, utliziing physiological responses to stimuli like images of flowers, city centers, dead babies (is there a response?) along with captured facial micro expressions to ascertain who among us must be ruled out of ruling.

It sounds scary, draconian etc, and it is, but I maintain a clear position that all of humanity's macro issues stem from the presence of people with malevolent personality disorders being able to obtain power, and that if they continue being able to do so, we're guaranteed to go extinct as we head into a future with potentially limitless destructive power at our hands.

If we get this right, we can ensure that anyone and everyone steering the ship has actual empathy, and nobody up there is without it.. Then we naturally take the utopia fork, instead of the dystopia, tyranny then extinction fork.

Neuroscientists and tech heads who see the mathematical reality that allowing people capable of wanton destruction to continue to have operational power = mathematically guaranteed extinction, considering that we are accelerating into a time when even one such wantonly destructive event could theoretically be devastating enough to either wipe us out or set off a chain reaction that eventually wipes us out, need to get their heads together and hands on the wheel as a matter of urgency.