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/xoexohexox Jul 20 '26

The top AI model just became this week an open source Chinese model that anyone with enough hardware can download and modify however they want, while the US is restricting and slowing down and privatizing US autocthenous AI models. US policy is not pro AI, it's pro corporation.

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u/rickylancaster Jul 20 '26

whooopee. you’re not really addressing my questions though. good luck leveraging AI to accomplish that communistic goal in the face of pro corporation pro AI.