> In a lot of ways, in fact, “AI” is just the newest iteration of a very old form of colonial capitalism; build a wall around something you didn’t create, call

> In a lot of ways, in fact, “AI” is just the newest iteration of a very old form of colonial capitalism; build a wall around something you didn’t create, call it yours, and charge for access. (And when the natives complain, call them primitive and argue they’re blocking inevitable progress.) What a wonderful analogy. LLMs also feel very pythagoran, where a secret cult (of capital owners; the bourgeoisie) guards the secrets of forbidden math, using it for their own benefits, and denying it to the masses. The amount of data and computing power needed to train a good model means it is pretty much inaccessible to the masses, the public can only ever hope to use an already trained model which is provided to us by this secret cult.