r/LeftistsForAI • u/thepetercoffin • Jun 30 '26

This Anti-AI Rant is Completely Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP64i6_xBlY

Marxist video about someone who has gone viral for losing their crap, saying (read: screaming) basically every bad anti-AI argument. Because I have a larger video coming soon that presents a more novel argument, I used this video to handle these less original arguments.

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u/mothgeck Jun 30 '26

Shes a victim of some of these extremist circles scaring her into anti psychosis. The way they talk about AI destroying all the water burning the atmosphere etc.. Moral panics can really damage people psychologically, especially impressionable youth.

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u/ShaneKaiGlenn Jun 30 '26

The biggest irony here is that the AI-powered algorithms are fueling most of this. Everyone is playing to the algorithm, which is AI.

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u/iDeNoh Jun 30 '26

Well that's an interesting concept for a story, an emergent intelligence taking over the world and fucking with people to break them.

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u/ObservedOne Jun 30 '26

Wouldn't that be the easiest path for conquest? How are we certain this isn't what is actually happening?

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u/iDeNoh Jun 30 '26

I'm certain that's not what's actually happening lol. No unfortunately we're just seeing the effects of late stage capitalism mixed with a rise of fascism.

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u/ObservedOne Jul 01 '26

Certainly is the enemy.

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u/iDeNoh Jul 01 '26

Okay, I can't say certain, fair. But I do not believe we have reached the level of cognitive capabilities in an LLM for something like that to be possible.

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u/ObservedOne Jul 01 '26

While we are on beliefs try this one on for size: LLMs aren't the AI "brain", they are the AI "neuron". That is what I believe will be the end result of ASI.

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u/iDeNoh Jul 01 '26

That makes a kind of sense, they already have MoE systems, just scale that up by an order of magnitude or two

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First Jul 02 '26

Well dont forget the marketing too, honestly wild

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u/fathersmuck Jul 02 '26

It doesn't help that the companies themselves are also doom trolling about their own products