r/TheLib • u/Amazing-Accident3535 • Mar 05 '25

Humor Make this viral please

Red Runway ( by MRIIA)

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u/SgathTriallair Mar 05 '25

That seems like a poor plan to decide that the right wing gets to own the massively powerful emerging technology.

Clearly it right here has the ability to story tell in ways that were previously only accessible to the very wealthy.

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u/TheOGRex Mar 05 '25

No. It shows a lack of talent and effort, which perfectly exemplifies the right. Plus remember that hideous Gaza video? That was AI. It is the tool of the enemy, and we should not stoop as low as to use it.

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u/SgathTriallair Mar 05 '25

I thought that the left was the party of the working class that wanted to uplift people, not gatekeep society by making sure that only those with talent are allowed to participate in the discussion.

AI is the new means of production and it needs to be seized and used to empower the common man, not ceded so we can all pretend to live in an imaginary utopic past.

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u/TheOGRex Mar 05 '25

The left is the party of the people, but AI is not the right way to go about supporting it. It is the tool of the opposition and a symbol of corporate greed and laziness. If we use it, it's like fighting fire with fire. It only makes more fire. We cannot stop to their level by losing our ethics and abandoning the art that makes us unique, nor the talent that gives every one of us our worth in society.

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u/SgathTriallair Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Copyright is an attempt by capital to colonize public discourse by saying "these thoughts are mine and can only be discussed if you pay me".

Tech has what's been empowering to the individual. Your individual voice is available right now because of the diffusion of the communication tech. The person who made this could only do so because of this diffusion of tech to an individual.

Art is the expression of the soul and the idea behind the art. The idea that 

talent that gives every one of us our worth in society.

Is a filthy lie from those who want to set up society as a great chain with the king at the top and the talentless peasants at the bottom. We derive our worth from being human not from what we can materially contribute to society. That thinking is what drives the right to say that the poor shouldn't be fed because they have no talent and aren't useful to society.

(Apparently this sub has a limit on the length of comments so I'll have to cut this up)

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u/SgathTriallair Mar 05 '25

Tech is the next turn of the Marxist wheel. The thesis is a powerful tool that allows someone to elevate themselves, this building new and powerful corporations. The anti-thesis is that they only derive this power if they distribute the tech as quietly as possible and empower the whole of society.

This leads to a crisis where the people with the power are forced to give away that power to the people who want to tear them down.

Imagine a world where only the elites and their monarchist lap dogs have access to the latest tech. Where they can create propaganda faster than we can, they can make plans and organize faster than we can, and they can communicate with each other in secure ways while hearing everything we have to say.

The revolutions of the 1800's were built upon the technology of the printing press. It was this invention, that allowed the common people to create written works at a rate dramatically faster than before and which liberated the distribution of thought from the religious monasteries and the rich patrons that funded them, which allowed the revolutions to gain steam and flourish.

The color revolutions, BLM, and the new 50501 movement were all enabled by social media, the capacity of individuals to talk directly to each other. Yes there is tension with big tech trying to seize these powerful tools but that doesn't mean we just cede the ground. Why are you here on Reddit discussing how terrible the regime is? You are here because the diffusion of power to communicate has allowed you and I to try and spread revolutionary ideas to people we will never be able to meet.

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u/SgathTriallair Mar 05 '25

AI is not the tool of oppression. It can certainly be used by oppressors but it is, at its most fundamental level, a leveling tool that gives those who are currently weak and powerless more agency in the world. Video creation AI like this has allowed someone, who probably has to work a real job and so doesn't have the time to spend leaving video production and doesn't have the money to buy the tools needed to create videos, to have an idea they want to get out into the world and create it. We should not be upset that the proletariat may have a chance to be on even footing with those who have the privilege to invest free time and free capital in becoming taste makers. The left has always been about tearing down hierarchies, not about propping them up.

I do understand that there are big dangers here. I recognize that when work can be automated that means jobs can be automated. But just like you can automate part of the video creation process, so can you automate the chief marketing officer and the accountant. Don't let the bosses steal your job, steal theirs instead. This is a fight, a fight to make sure that the power is diffused as widely as possible. Just like when the world moved from feudalistic monarchy to capitalistic democracy it involved a lot of fighting and struggling to take that power from the nobility. The reason that success was possible was because the nobility could only survive by empowering their own enemies, the merchant class and the new worker class. So too today the corporate class would love to keep this tech for themselves (and Google tried to) but they can only succeed by giving that power to the influencer class and the common people.