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So. HN is pretty much in agreement that this is regulatory capture. And I'll add that this has the potential to create massive wealth inequalities, as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good AIs, while individuals are left using stunted AIs that won't tell you how to change your car battery ("just in case"). Has anyone figured out what we can do to fight back against this? Even on HN, you can see the sock puppets posting every ten minutes, scrolling human posts to the bottom. Is this it? Is AI oligarchy the future? RIP democracy?

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> RIP democracy?

Well your first mistake is to believe democracy existed before AI, it just leaves you as a warrior for the status quo of the before times, which is what made tech feudalism inevitable in the first place.

Right, real democracy has never been tried! I should have known.

Just look at the Israel case it's the perfect litmus test, the majority of the population in every so called western democracy is against the genocide, while their governments materially support it. Everything is like that, these so called democracies aren't representing people they represent corporate interests.

Well all Democracy is relative. In the US we have a representative republic or something, which doesn't put every military action to a vote, and sometimes our leaders have more information than us (I.E., are you sure it's a genocide? maybe those in leadership positions have a clearer picture than you do).

But I'm talking about something much less democratic that that even. AI is going to enable those in power to break away from democratic forms of government at escape velocity, if they want to. And it seems that they do.

> as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good AIs, while individuals are left using stunted AIs

A real danger we're sleepwalking into.

> Is AI oligarchy the future?

They certainly aren't sparing any dimes trying to bring about precisely that future.

> Has anyone figured out what we can do to fight back against this?

Hypothetically, there's always a way. Realistically, the wall that separates us from it has to do with opinions like the one expressed by lyu07282 in his reply: dead end generalities with an aura of originality. If we can't find the people and the tone to converse about the problems in sufficient detail we'll never find a way out.

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