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The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI's invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they're trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/

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[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Humans First is a conservative social movement that is dedicated to ensuring that the future of AI is in the hands of everyday people.

That doesn't sound anti-AI to me.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The cool new shill tactic is to pretend to be anti-AI or "concerned about AI" so they can hijack the conversation and re-direct people's focus away from actual change and regulation. They bring up do-nothing solutions like "Local LLMs" or a there being a "public stake" in the industry.

Lemmy is absolutely thick with these cockroaches.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Honestly. It reads like they want the government, specifically their dear leader, to do a hostile takeover of the AI companies so they can control it.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wonder if they consider libs are everyday people 🤔

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They absolutely don't. See also all the outrage about "taxpayer money" funding abortion and transition as part of Medicare/Medicaid -- they don't even consider that women and trans people are also taxpayers.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

It's your bog standard reactionary populism

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is it that abundance thing? If so, that is people betting that llms will be the next oil and they want stock.

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a sane route. "AI" isn't inherently bad, if it's truly free and open source, with free and open source data and models and algorithms.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah we have those already. The problem is capitalism.

The sane route is to implement socialism. Your AI girlfriend is secondary potatoes.