I believe it can be used as a tool for good. But, bear with me here - GenAI for the public good requires a good enough understanding of the forces of production. The way all AI, including Open Source AI functions benefits companies with a large stake already - due to compute requirements, data availability and a host of other resource constraints. We also simultaneously risk losing capabilities and knowledge across traditional tool uses to a mirage of capabilities embedded in our very own individually purchased softwares - capabilities built on language models behind subscription tiers.

I know it might sound like a stretch, but there are possibilities/situations where the third solution you opted for becomes oppressive. As there is no way for the person to move out of that house in a capitalist society, they end up working there as bonded labour. I’m sure there are ways out of it through some sort of communitarian model which guarantees equality

YouTube has always been arbitrary about its copyright strikes, but platform capitalism has a unique way of lending itself to enshittification on every front. Now it is a result of Big Tech backing Big AI. First we were onboarded and now we are being forced to lend our personalities to AI and its “agents”.

My app, “Voyager” keeps going down momentarily too, but so do a bunch of other social media websites. Don’t know if it’s the fascist government or my ISP playing tricks