it is fucking priceless that an innovation that contained such simplicities as "don't use 32-bit weights when tokenizing petabytes of data" and "compress your hash tables" sent the stock exchange into 'the west has fallen' mode. I don't intend to take away from that, it's so fucking funny 
This is not the rights issue, this is not the labor issue, this is not the merits issue, this is not even the philosophical issue. This is the cognitive issue. When not exercised, parts of your brain will atrophy. You will start to outsource your thinking to the black box. You are not built different. It is the expected effect.
I am not saying this is happening on this forum, or even that there are tendencies close to this here, but I preemptively want to make sure it gets across because it fucked me up for a good bit. Through Late 2023–Early 2024 I found myself leaning into both AI images for character conceptualization and AI coding for my general workflow. I do not recommend this in the slightest.
For the former, I found that in retrospect, the AI image generation reified elements into the characters I did not intend and later regretted. For the latter, it essentially kneecapped my ability to produce code for myself until I began to wean off of it. I am a college student. I was in multiple classes where I was supposed to be actively learning these things. Deferring to AI essentially nullified that while also regressing my abilities. If you don't keep yourself sharp, you will go dull.
If you don't mind that or don't feel it is personally worth it to learn these skills besides the very very basics and shallows, go ahead, that's a different conversation but this one does not apply to you. I just want to warn those who did not develop their position on AI beyond "the most annoying people in the world are in charge of it and/or pushing it" (a position that, when deployed by otherwise-knowledgeable communists, is correct 95% of the time) that this is something you will have to be cognizant of. The brain responds to the unknowable cube by deferring to it. Stay vigilant.
One thing to note about these AI boondoggles is that they represent a decentralization of information and are currently the most accessible means to promoting and accessing leftist or anti-imperialist information. At this point in time, the English (global) internet has been completely fine-tuned to serve US propaganda slop if you're looking for any political information. Google search is now wired to direct people straight to natopedia and that leads to state gov, cia gov, freedomhouse whenever you try to search for anything anti-imperialist. Information has been completely centralized so that any Western propaganda drivel is boosted to a dominant position and every "alternative platform" are also NATO lackeys, like how DuckDuckGo search results now also filter out all Russian sources.
This is where it is actually useful for me because I would tolerate some AI hallucination (which can be reduced to be relatively marginal depending on your queries) over having to shovel through some shit BBC news just to learn about the Sahel state leadership or some natopedia article of small Soviet towns where you need to comb through every second sentence, because some CIA bootlick editor vomited RFE "sources" all over screaming about how it was a "secret KGB torture gulag" or "Stalin once ate all the grain there," just to find out some basic geographical or biographical details. I got Deepseek to compile a list of Marxist-Leninist states because the natopedia article had propaganda all over like claiming the DPRK was "not" ML because some western ultraleftist "Marxist" scholar claimed Juche was not Marxism. I'd prefer the risk of encountering some hallucination slop something like "among the notable Marxist-Leninist-Titoist states during the Cold War period was Asgard" than being made to analyze some ultraleft Western hegemony bootlick "scholar" slop for potential facts.
Deepseek in particular is currently working rather well as a substitute for places like r/genzhou where you used to be able to ask questions about leftist history and theory before it was banned. Its ability to scrape search results means that it works fairly well for finding reading materials without as egregious hallucination as ChatGPT where it makes up book titles. I had it spit out book recommendations from Losurdo, Parenti and Grover Furr when I asked about non-Western slanted sources about the USSR.
Ideally, of course, there wouldn’t be a need for AI to fill these gaps, but given the complete centralization of information and conditions of soft censorship that the Western platform monopolies allow them to enact, I'd say that there is a use case for these LLM chat engines provided that one exercises caution.