Socialist AI

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• Sims@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Great finally having a counter weight to llm’s trained on the massive free market propaganda dataset. We just need to move past these archaic ‘*isms’ that are hardly scientific at all.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The 'isms are better thought as points of reference for your political views; for example someone saying “I’m an $personist” is basically saying “I agree with what $person said/did in most theoretical and practical matters”. They are useful, specially as they help you to understand what the other person defends, e.g.

    • a Maoist is likely to put heavy emphasis on rural workers
    • a Trotskyist is likely to believe the revolution should give no fucks about borders
    • a Dengist is likely to downplay the differences between market vs. state-planned economies, seeing them as just tools for an end
    • a Luxemburgist is likely to raise criticism against any “higher” role of a vanguard; etc.

    So they aren’t problematic on themselves. You need to watch out for dogmatism, though; just because you’re a $personist doesn’t mean you should automatically clap to every single thing $person did or said.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m no Luddite when it comes to AI but I dunno how to feel about this either.

  Those bots are not a good way to inform yourself. They’re a bit too prone to say inane shit while vomiting certainty, they convey the undeclared political bias of the data set, and even when they’re right they’re simply not cost-efficient regarding water/energy consumption. I think a good FAQ system addressing newbie questions would be better, beyond that referring them directly to the literature.

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  • Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think they are pretty clear about their political bias and the direction. Like any tool, I guess it can be a good reference source or a total garbage can, depending on how it is administered. I’m still sticking with reading printed material, so its definitely not for me; maybe the younger set.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, that’s actually good. I don’t mind some bias (I’m sceptic on sources claiming to be “unbiased”), but I want it to be as explicit as possible.

      I just tested it and confirmed what you said, by asking “What’s the role of peasants in revolutionary processes?”. The answer quoted Trotsky almost exclusively; that works like a charm for me (I’m mostly Trotskyist), but a Maoist would already scream bloody murder.

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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  An echo chamber is an echo chamber. Noþing healþy comes from it.

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