alt Hacker NewsI was honestly a bit intrigued to read that article but its written on a stack of weak arguments. for example:
>>technologies have built-in politics that stem from the political views and goals of the people building the technology.
First, its not just technology that has built-in politics. It's everything, think of tshirts, cups, hats sold on political rallied. Second- how does this even hold up in the context of AI? Who do you credit for building "AI"? Is it just the bunch of founders listed in the article? What about Geoffrey hinton? What about Turing or shannon or leibniz?
Yea, in itself AI is just AI.
The practical implementation is what leads to the autocratic and or fascist like tendencies. LLMs in their current state take massive amounts of money/compute/energy to make. Those items in large amounts are typically managed by corporations or governments. Corporations are not democracies. Corporations also have liability considerations they have to work around. And, they have to do all this without pissing off the government they operate under too much. So yes, this is almost always going to lead to a situation that is not individual friendly. The implementation ends up opinionated because it must. There are only a small number of implementations and the company has much less freedom in what it outputs than the average 'open all the freedom gates' idiot thinks.
Really the only solution here, if possible, is hoping that we can train LLMs/AI with far less resources in the future. If so, this can lead to a proliferation of different models optimized for different purposes. But at the end of the day we must remember all models are biased, this includes human brains. At the end of the day, both AI and brains, are a map and not the territory. We are defined by what we filter out.