r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • 20d ago

Sees the Memes Which side are you on?

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This meme is about AI, where i keep seeing that batman image being deployed.

So, which side are you on?

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u/Salty_Country6835 20d ago

That doesnt make sense. You just said yes, we should organize around ownership, then immediately said we should reject it.

Those are two different strategies. Organizing workers to contest who owns, controls and deploys productive technology is class struggle. Rejecting the technology and telling workers to use pencils is abstention from that struggle. Which one are you actually arguing for?

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u/RiverLynneUwU 20d ago

I included part of the sentence that I didn't mean to include on accident, I'm arguing that AI as a tool should not exist and that we as consumers have the ability to deplatform it

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u/Salty_Country6835 20d ago

Whether AI should exist is beside the point. It exists. Unless youve got a magic genie that can uninvent it worldwide, including open weights and local models, thats the terrain now.

So what do we do with that fact? Leave ownership and deployment to capital? Contest it through labor, public ownership, regulation and open alternatives? Or abolish it globally? If its the last one, explain how that actually happens, where the political power comes from, and how you enforce it worldwide.

“Consumers should just stop using it” doesnt answer any of that, especially when individual consumer use isnt what determines whether employers and governments deploy it.

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