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4. One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a “public good” which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of “digital public infrastructure.” This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I’ve never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn’t ultimately concede this is where things end.

Bonus Tim Sweeny explaining the situation in Americanese:

Picture an executive a taco company saying this sort of thing about a new brand of tacos coming onto the market, speculating about the geopolitical and societal disruptions they anticipate as a result of advances in tacos.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Zomia referenced

    shoulder-grab It’s reddit-ass anthropology, fantasy world building applied in reverse to invent a new type of scientific racism.

    Also, you gotta use James C. Scott’s middle initial because the far more famous James Scott is the guy who got a life sentence for drunkenly moving some sandbags and fucking up a levee in the 90s.