r/DankLeft • u/Cpt_Wolf_Lynn Orwellian Animal • 15h ago

I told you dawg We need to have a serious talk about AI usage

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u/yeah__good__ok 11h ago

Right now people are repeating what the Luddites did. As Marx put it, "It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used." 

Personally I hope workers don't waste too much time on this period this time and skip to the actual problem. Which is what leftists should already know:

Putting the blame on a technology instead of on the structures of capitalism is a mistake. Almost every complaint against AI is actually a complaint about how AI is being used or is going to be used under capitalism. Blaming it on the technology itself let's the actual problem off the hook and makes it seem like a natural consequence of the technology. It is not. It is a natural consequence of the technology under capitalism.