I’m a leftist that wants to abolish copyright but I believe that genAI stans are closeted copyrightists. how else could you as a leftist look at massive corporations lobbying to further destroy labor rights via AI colonialism, using it for mass layoffs, colonizing culture in a way that hasn’t been seen since Europeans extracting resources and knowledge from Africa AND still claim that you support workers and marginalized people?

I think they spent so much time behind a terminal that they started to believe they too could one day own their own little fiefdom in Silicon Valley.

the “move fast and break things” mentality manifests itself in anarchist instances like db0 thinking they can liberate the workers if they just lick the boots of their tech overlords hard enough and mimick the way they speak.

I think the reason why tech oligarchs love genAI so much is because they want to create a new world shaped by copyright 2.0 similarly to how crypto shills peddle the web 3.0 gospel.

you could argue machine learning like Google translate is useful. it’s still evil though because Google.

generative ai though? absolutely not, we need to burn it down.

it doesn’t matter whether abolition is realistic or not. the same thing could be said in 1980 about owning a supercomputer that fits in your pocket

thanks for the rec

this is simply the liberal “if you don’t vote then you deserved it” rhetoric repackaged. we’re not interested since our goal isn’t to work inside the system as abolitionists

anyone who calls AI a form of life is too far gone to collaborate with