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0 pointsecshafer1y ago0 comments

Generative AI is inherently a political issue, its not surprising at all.

There is the case of what is "truth". As soon as you start to ensure some quality of truth to what is generated, that is political.

As soon as generative AI has the capability to take someone's job, that is political.

The instant AI can make someone money, it is political.

When AI is trained on something that someone has created, and now they can generate something similar, it is political.

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whimsicalism1y ago

> As soon as generative AI has the capability to take someone's job, that is political.

What is political is people enshrining themselves in chokepoints and demanding a toll for passing through or getting anything done. That is what you do when you make a certain job politically 'untakable'.

People who espouse that the 'personal is political' risk making the definition of politics so broad that it is useless.

ilaksh1y ago

Then .. everything is political?

commodoreboxer1y ago

Everything involving any kind of coordination, cooperation, competition, and/ot communication between two or more people involves politics by its very nature. LLMs are communication tools. You can't divorce politics from their use when one person is generating text for another person to read.

JohnFen1y ago

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles

phito1y ago

It is. Unfortunately.

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