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.
Ultimately that would be the goal, but we have to get there somehow from where we are today.
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.
warms my heart to see the fash seething
I see the fash are rankled by this one
I’m betting within a decade if it actually works
yup email is just fundamentally not the right tool for this
People are a product of the system they live under. We can look at the collapse of USSR as a concrete example here. All the same people who used to be productive members of society under the Soviet system became oligarchs once niches for exploitation opened up after the transition to capitalism. It’s a systemic problem, not an individual one. That’s what she’s saying when she says you hate the material conditions.
Right, which really suggests that email is not the right medium if you want genuine privacy.
Right, understanding what your threat model is important. Then you can make a conscious choice regarding the trade offs of using a particular service, and you understand what your risks are.
Metadata tracking should be very concerning to anyone who cares about privacy because it inherently builds a social graph. The server operators, or anyone who gets that data, can see a map of who is talking to whom. The content is secure, but the connections are not.
Being able to map out a network of relations is incredibly valuable. An intelligence agency can take the map of connections and overlay it with all the other data they vacuum up from other sources, such as location data, purchase histories, social media activity. If you become a “person of interest” for any reason, they instantly have your entire social circle mapped out.
Worse, the act of seeking out encrypted communication is itself a red flag. It’s a perfect filter: “Show me everyone paranoid enough to use crypto.” You’re basically raising your hand. So, in a twisted way, tools for private conversations that share their metadata with third parties, are perfect machines for mapping associations and identifying targets such as political dissidents.
Open sourcing these thing would definitely be the right way to go, and you’re absolutely right that it’s a general solver that would be useful in any scenario where you have a system that requires dynamic allocation.
That’s the scientific method version. Here we’re talking about transformation of quantity into quality. :)
Photos of Chomsky hanging out with Epstein just got released.
Yeah for sure, I do think it’s only a matter of time before people figure out a new substrate. It’s really just a matter of allocating time and resources to the task, and that’s where state level planning comes in.
It’s amazing how people just can’t learn the lesson that the problem isn’t that a particular oligarch owns a public forum, but that public forums are privately owned in the first place.