The left is beyond fucking clownish here. As big a dipshits as you could possible imagine.
As a movement, it appears the left has not been willing to engage seriously with AI — despite its potential to affect the lives and livelihoods of billions of people in ways that would normally make it just the kind of threat, and opportunity, left politics would concern itself with
The left’s claims about AI1 are fucking ludicrous. They aver that it “doesn’t work” or that it’s a “plagiarism machine” and that there is nothing it can do better than any human and furthermore that it never will be able to do so. Meanwhile, my company has written an entire new product with 90% AI code in a short amount of time.
They’ve just ceded the real world and actual reality without even a fight for their fantasyland anchored in 2020 or so. In many ways, I think Covid broke the left. They saw it as their chance to completely transform society but other than minor changes, basically nothing happened. This destroyed them and drove the whole movement insane. This left them unable to deal with an actual huge societal rearrangement such as working AI.
The left should be pushing hard on making sure the productivity gains of AI are shared, that those put out of jobs (which is already happening) are taken care of, that there is a “public” non-corporate AI option, and many other things.
Instead, they are covering their ears, blindfolding their eyes and chanting, “LA LA LA LA” till they pass out. Absurd and ridiculous.