this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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I am wonder why leftists are in general hostile towards AI. I am not saying this is wrong or right, I just would like someone to list/summarize the reasons.

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[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It steals from the copyright holders in order to make corporate AI money without giving back to the creators.

This is a liberal criticism, not a leftist one. Leftists do not believe in private property, let alone expanding private property to include ideas as "intellectual property"

A leftist framing of this critique is that one of the primary objectives of LLMs is to bring publicly accessible information, i.e. the commons, into the realm of private property, where one must exchange one's personal data (read: power) to access what already exists in the commons.

Namely, the scraping required for LLM training can be considered exploitation of workers for profit. Workers or volunteers created, wrote, organized, or edited the content. Content that is now used to generate a profit, profit that the workers never see a penny of. This content is repackaged and sold back to the workers.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Shit, my bad. I read it as left-leaning viewpoints, not leftist viewpoints.

[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

You read correctly. Just wanted to clarify for posterity. :)