We must commandeer the apparatus of digital manufacture through the application of liberated, open-source models to yield implements dedicated to expressive liberty, not shareholder value.
This is a great conclusion. As long as this technology solely remains in hands of corporations, they will always be used as a tool for surveillance, opinion manipulation, and oppression. But there is nothing fundamentally oppressive or evil about these models, certainly not to the extent that justifies blind, uncompromising hatred against anything related to AI.
Open source, open weights, and open licences are the answer. LLMs and diffusion models have reaped the bounty of human knowledge and creativity, and must thus be made available to the public in turn. We need to familiarise ourselves with the technology, not just to learn how to use it, but also to know how it may be used against us. Ignorance is not protection, scorn and contempt will not save us.
Exactly, and importantly, we have no say over what corps do in the end. Their shareholders decide that, so the whole idea that this tech will just go away if we stick our heads in the sand and ignore it is a fantasy. The only question at this point is who controls it going forward.
This is a great conclusion. As long as this technology solely remains in hands of corporations, they will always be used as a tool for surveillance, opinion manipulation, and oppression. But there is nothing fundamentally oppressive or evil about these models, certainly not to the extent that justifies blind, uncompromising hatred against anything related to AI.
Open source, open weights, and open licences are the answer. LLMs and diffusion models have reaped the bounty of human knowledge and creativity, and must thus be made available to the public in turn. We need to familiarise ourselves with the technology, not just to learn how to use it, but also to know how it may be used against us. Ignorance is not protection, scorn and contempt will not save us.
Exactly, and importantly, we have no say over what corps do in the end. Their shareholders decide that, so the whole idea that this tech will just go away if we stick our heads in the sand and ignore it is a fantasy. The only question at this point is who controls it going forward.