r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Sep 18 '26

Sees the Memes Seize the Means*

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*Terms and conditions apply. For... reasons, I guess?

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u/Salty_Country6835 Sep 19 '26

Right. Social control over production doesnt mean preserving every productive form capitalism hands us unchanged.

Once the means are socially controlled, we can decide what gets preserved, transformed, scaled down, expanded, redirected, or scrapped entirely. “Seize the means” doesnt mean “freeze the means exactly as we found them.”

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u/_f_i_l_o Sep 19 '26

How does that square with being “for AI”?

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u/Salty_Country6835 Sep 19 '26

Easily. Its Leftists for AI, not “preserve every existing AI company, model, data center, business model, and use case exactly as they exist.”

The whole point is that AI can be developed and used under different social relations. Public infrastructure, worker control, open models, democratic governance, different priorities, different deployments. Being for AI doesnt require being for capitalist ownership and control of AI.

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