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AI has nothing to do with fascism. It's a tool, and the left rejecting the use of this tool cedes this technology to fascists. Meanwhile, I would argue that what makes something slop or not is the intent behind it. Any piece of advertisement made by a human is far more slop than something generated using an LLM by a person genuinely wanting to express an idea in their head. We already live in a culture saturated by slop to the brim. You can't go outside without being assaulted by advertisements on every corner.
is the solution collective ownership of the means of productions, as well as abolition of advertisting?
Ultimately that would be the goal, but we have to get there somehow from where we are today.
When the facists are the only people who have access to the slops brain we dont really have much choice.
There are plenty of open models out there. There are also hosted models like DeepSeek from China, everyone has access to them. It's not a question of availability, it's a problem of people actively choosing not to engage with this technology.
I will concede that point, but I still think that the lefts rejection is still justified especially for image generation where the few genuine use cases are vastly outweighed by the masses of deception it is usually used for.
I don't see how rejection of new automation technology is justified at all actually. There is literally no rational basis for rejecting this tech and ensuring that it's only used by people who are directly opposed to your ideals. The fallacy if your argument is the underlying assumption that if the tiny minority on the left doesn't use it, then it's going to have any impact on broad usage. Image generation is an excellent tool for making things like political memes, and other forms of agitation. The right uses it aggressively, and it directly drives their recruitment. Why the left should ignore this tech is frankly beyond me.