I mean... it seems painfully obvious and doesn't need much of a thesis behind it.

The wealthy want their slaves back, but they want slaves that don't push back, never ask for more, never need a day off, don't need sleep, don't need breaks, and are needlessly sycophantic to stroke the egos of the wealthy. It's no more complex than that: the promise of LLMs was that they could have deeply exploitable knowledge workers without any of the fuss or mess of humans who want a life outside of their fucking jobs.

Like what else has this ever been? It's been transparent since day one that this is why every business pushes AI adoption so hard, for them it has to work, they're willing to bet the future on it because they think their sheer belief in it and throwing money at it will eventually "make it work."

On the plus side, anyone who understands LLMs understands their limitations and the problems that are baked in to how they work and how those issues can't be "fixed." So this dipshit ass all-in plan that the wealthy have is doomed to crumble because it's never going to work the way they want it to. So we've got that going for us.

Anyway I hate tools being described as "tools of the ruling class" because it often misses the point of how such tools can be useful to the proletariat as well. Class solidarity is a tool of the ruling class, but class solidarity would be golden in the hands of the proletariat, who vastly outnumber the wealthy class and ruling class. All tools are useful, what makes a tool dangerous is who wields it and what they choose to use it for. A hammer can be used to build and it can also be used to smash in someone's skull. Tools aren't the problem: specific dangerous humans are. I don't actually have huge problems with AI LLMs providing they are open source and rolled out small scale on home PCs, I just have an issue with their industrial applications at scale and the attempt to use them to consolidate power and control. They don't have to be used that way.

This doesn't make sense when you look at it from the perspective of open source models. They exist and they're fantastic. They also get better just as quickly as the big AI company services.

IMHO, the open source models will ultimately what pops the big AI bubble.

It's always about AGENCY and power, not performances or preferences.

Instead I say we let ai play with the unreal government pyramid scheme that is money while we utilize the money in the same way as we already do, essentially let the AIs do the boring stuff.

And then much later on when there is risk of not finding a niche that needs individuals we then work on creating automated labor so that we need not worry about responsibility as individuals while the AIs play present day jobs in the same we we presently do.

At this point income and responsibility are solved issues all while not even remotely changing how society works other than what we as people do day to day so that way we may finally consider living life as we please instead of being beholden to fixing problems of the world.

Reads like a communist hiding their power level or a liberal searching for a take on the enclosures actively happening this very moment that isn’t the fascist/libertarian one (“it’s different because it’s happening to me!”).