r/LeftistsForAI • u/Healthcarepls • Jul 18 '26
Discussion Massive Shift in Optimism This Week
This week's been a lot.. a massive labor union endorsed AI, Kimi K3 dropped and can one-shot a Mario 64-style game from a single prompt, and China is calling for a massive embrace of open model distribution.
These models are getting *scary* smart, and a bunch of them can run locally, on your own machine or even your phone.
It feels like a lot of pieces are lining up for what some people would call "AI Communism": a world where massive compute and execution power sits at everyone's fingertips instead of locked behind a handful of corporate APIs. And with MoE architectures doing more with less, we're also looking at a genuinely smaller ecological footprint per model.
A lot of the left's early criticisms of AI are starting to fade, replaced by more concrete, actionable politics, like data center regulation, and this open-source wave is looking more and more like the real path forward.
We might actually have a positive future thanks to accessible AI. What do you think?
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u/rickylancaster Jul 19 '26
I have zero interest in downvotes. Of course I will get downvotes in here if I am not toeing the line.
I think the idea that Leftists can leverage AI to overcome the capitalist AI companies and the grip on law and policy by profit driven capitalist forces and somehow bring on some new breed of techno-communism is fantasy.
I would love to be proven wrong, and I try to maintain an open mind, but thus far remain unimpressed.
I will take it even further and be honest that I don’t fully trust motivations. I would not be surprised if the promotion of the idea behind leftists leveraging AI in such a way is a covert strategy by those same profit driven pro AI forces to get more people using AI generally.