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The answer is certainly not to embrace "AI" in it's current forms or allow for big tech monopolists to continue their wasteful and destructive infrastructure buildout. The oligarchy isn't going to regulate itself to worker self-determination either. Nothing short of the death of capitalism will do.
Ok, let me know how that goes. While you whine online and have no impact on reality we will embrace "AI" and drain billionaire funds for distillation, open weights and building free software.
You genuinely don't see the effective differences of thse two strategies? Actually doing something vs having your finger crossed some magical boogeyman called "capitalism" will collapse?