The Only Ethical Model for AI is Socialism

Today’s large language models (LLMs) are developed using data from the public, meaning they draw on the collective knowledge and contributions of countless individuals. Given this foundation, it would be unethical for these technologies to be owned or controlled by a single entity. Instead, the management and governance of LLMs should reflect the collective nature of their creation. Socialism, which emphasizes communal ownership and equitable distribution of resources, offers a fair approach to overseeing and regulating this technology. By ensuring that LLMs remain a shared resource, we can promote greater accessibility, innovation, and ethical use, benefiting society as a whole.

So we’re going to get unfettered capitalism, right?

Direct democracy non representative socialism where all the work is done by robots.. fixed that for you.

It’d be cute if we reared the models on ethics and philosophy. Too bad we reared it on DeviantArt and Reddit, instead.

…and boom. there’s the buzzword that divides our world and suddenly the next 45 years of politics got so much more annoying

Yeah ok. Capitalists don’t really care too much about what’s ethical anyway, so this doesn’t change much. Like, it’s not even in their list of wants and desires. “Whatever makes the most money”. Now, if it would be massively costly to thwart the masses rioting and rebelling and murdering if things aren’t handled fairly, THEN they start to see the light.

But the idea that these things are trained on everyone’s work, so everyone ought to benefit? Sure. Sounds good. I’d even like to go one further and simply track what is useful to the LLMs and who wrote it. They’re currently black boxes and the training successfully obfuscates what precisely is being used for what, we could develop ways to keep track. If, in the end, the weight of all of Reddit’s input is zero, then we’re not really contributing anything here to AI. It’s likely going to be pretty evenly and broadly distributed though.

Socialism (the collective ownership of the means of production) has never resulted in an ethical system before. Why would it happen with AI?

Except the coding, prompting, servers, chips, power, etc all came from capitalist private sources so that kind of puts a dent in your argument

Socialism never works, never will work, because people are inherently selfish, and those who seek to lead, are naturally egotistical and narcissistic (sp?). Putting those traits in a computer doesn’t make it any better.

The AI Dividend. It was built in our data, so we all own a piece of every single token.

Nontime like the present to start paying up.

By that standard the same applies to the economic system in general. Don’t get me wrong, I actually agree, just not for those reasons. I agree because this is the way out of our current economic system – this moves us away from scarcity, but so much of our society is built on the assumed premise that we’re going to have to deal with fairly distributing the results (at least until we actually move fully past scarcity).

The only ethical model for any type of human activity is socialism, because socialism means democracy and liberty. That is our dilemma as we approach the precipice: capitalism or freedom. It is a choice.

I didn’t know that socialism was ethical.

When did that happen?

Socialism is giving the means of production to workers.
That’s what it is.

AI will replace human labor- all labor. Socialism, much like Capitalism, relies on labor. Every econo.y system has.

We need a paradigm shift for an era without labor where all citizens share in AI and its fruits with some unheard of for of resource allocation- not Socialism.

I do think we should advocate for UBO though- Universal Basic Ownership in any models which have been built using our general training data- as well as any derivatives.

If the AI considers every life precious with the same rights then it will not get to socialism but rather libertarianism.