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Anyone else notice that more conservative-leaning people are much more receptive to "AI"? (hexbear.net)

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As a general observation, I find that the more right-leaning a person is, the more they tend to be receptive to the usage and adoption of "AI". And inversely, the more left-leaning, the more skeptical.

I pin this on the notion that most conservatives hate workers, are happy to see them laid off, etc. Whereas more progressive folks tend to see value in what human beings do.

Moreover, communists like ourselves almost completely dismiss the plagarism slop machines as being utterly misanthropic, not to mention flying in the face of the labour theory of value.

As an anecdote, I work with a conservative guy who puts EVERYTHING through Grok. Almost everything he types/says to his team mates he gets Grok to write for him. Everything he "fact-checks" goes through Grok. He views it as totally impartial, without bias, etc.

On the other hand, I think more critically-minded folks are prone to seeing the inherent bias in these chatbot slop machines, and view them with skepticism in the same way they view all other institutions in society.

Clearly I am generalising a lot here, but has anyone else made the same or similar observation?

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the social media sites are owned by the capitalist class, that will never happen.

The right uses LLMs to generate reactionary slop because they literally do not care about any truth value of said content. I don't think we should stoop to their level because we'd just get destroyed by conservatives repurposing arguments against LLMs against us.

Also let's not get into the fact that all the major LLMs were created by the continuing exploitation of workers who have no say in its creation. If there's an LLM that has a completely open dataset on the same level as all the frontier models let me know.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Check this out if you haven't read it already: RedSails | False Witnesses

Of course they don't care about the truthiness of the slop. It reinforces their values so they consume it. In the same vein we should be creating content for not only us but also to grab those Lib leaders and pull them in our direction. Less rage bait, more Parenti and "this is who the real enemy is" type content. But dunking on conservative stereotypes also feels good.

If all we offer is dooomerism then we're too toxic to join. We need to offer a variety of content. Yes, some theory but also some dunking, slop, etc.

I do not care one bit about what conservatives will say. They don't matter, they're not our targets and nothing they say matters to us. They're the enemy. You don't let the enemy control your speech.

And when it comes to the corporate platforms, we flood the platforms with content and dare them to ban us, then we flood it some more. I'm talking about building the kinds of bot networks that the right has had for years, buying up cheap phones to automate commenting, liking, and mass automation of propaganda sharing. We can't just let the worst humans own this space!