Comment on True or false: "Reading and studying socialist theory is the cure to AI psychosis."
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Understanding Marx’s ideas about alienation certainly influences my attitudes about AI but if youve got actual psychosis no ideology is a direct cure, you just need therapy
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Is AI psychosis an indirect result of alienation under capitalism?
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think so, yeah. But I think a lot of things are.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Like what?
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, if we’re estranged from the products of our own labor, as Marx argues, then we are estranged from the products of everyone else’s. Including intellectual labor. It has become increasingly difficult for the majority of the population to maintain good literacy rates, for instance. When youre alienated from everything you see and consume, it’s not easy to feel attached to the systems which got you here, leading to radicalism, for good or ill.
Why would I want AI to regurgitate the ideas that already exist? I can just read them. I want power over my life, my work, my government. Are any of these Silicon Valley tools going to give that to me? Unlikely.