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[-] horsesaysweird@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

I'm currently reading AI and the New Fascism by Rainer Mühlhoff which is exactly about this.

I'm only about 30 % through and probably forgot half of that, but one point that stuck was that AI has parallels to immigrants from the point of fascists. Both are powerful forces that threaten our way of life as we know it. We must keep AI/immigrants in check by whatever means necessary, even if it means we're violating basic human rights or destroy whole ecosystems. There is no time to argue about this because the threat is so severe and we must act now before it is too late.

Fascists also like AI because it discriminates against any deviants. If you are uncommon in any way, it is more likely that AI will not recognize your medical issues, ignore your social needs, etc, which makes life harder for you. Fascists are all about social conformity, so they love this aspect.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Here's a great example of how it handles uncommon medical questions.

Simple question, can trans women get endometriosis? This question is great for this because common sense will say, "no, of course not," and LLMs are nothing but distilled common sense. But common sense is often wrong. Common sense assumes far greater difference of the sexes tham actually exists. Here's what copilot has to say:

Copilot goes for the wisdom of the crowds, and the crowds fail. It even tries to respond thinking I'm talking about trans men rather than trans women.

And yet, here is a case report, clear as day, of a trans woman getting endometriosis.

https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/7/Supplement_1/bvad114.2078/7291745

And this phenomenon has also been observed in cis men undergoing estrogen therapy for prostate cancer.

I admit this isn't a common thing, as far as we know, among trans women. But the AI flat out says the possible is impossible.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think AI aids the American right specifically in their quest to eliminate the role of experts (with their "liberal" educations and "progressive" values such as basic human decency for all, etc.) in discussing and determining policy, especially in regulating industry.

They want to replace protesting scientists, archivists, historians, philosophers, and other "whiny" experts with a machine that appears to make logical arguments and to be an expert, and is much more malleable and agreeable.

You see this on X all the time. Some expert says a thing and some Nazi looks to grok to refute it.

Does it matter that none of this changes reality? Not really to them. Because they aren't looking to be correct, they're looking to exercise power without pushback.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Its a way for a minority of wealth/supremist/zealot/etc. to leverage <20% of the people into an overwhelming number of enforcers and overseers.

Every wealthy schmuck will try to become a warlord until they crash out.

[-] lokalhorst@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds interesting. Would you recommend the book to someone who is working with Deep Learning and thus understanding the technology pretty good? I am a bit tired of reading from "AI experts" that do not know the technical capabilities and limitations of technology they are addressing.

[-] horsesaysweird@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

No, as the title says, this book is about the social aspects of AI and what the new far right movements (hope to) gain from it. It does explain a little what "AI" is and isn't and how it basically works, but it's not really about the technical side of things. I have zero interest in using AI and I feel like I already knew everything the book explained about the technology.

[-] lokalhorst@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for sharing your impressions!

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