Comment by bombcar
2 days ago
It's a rhetorical attempt to tie "those who dislike AI" to "those who dislike immigrants, and we all know they're super-duper evil".
It's a relatively cheap trick, badly executed.
2 days ago
It's a rhetorical attempt to tie "those who dislike AI" to "those who dislike immigrants, and we all know they're super-duper evil".
It's a relatively cheap trick, badly executed.
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While as argument, it may work, it does not seem to be conservatives that are afraid of AI ( at least in public fora ). But that is separate from your point on class type ( the rich ), which seems to be reason why it does not land well ( for me at least ).
The reason why this seems weird to you (and many other people for sure) is that current "conservative" politicians are actually more neoliberals than conservatives. So of course they will push cheap labour, offshoring, outsourcing and eventually AI. But it shouldn't be hard to understand actual conservative ideology here, since, like, it's already in the word.
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Conservatives loves AI because they see it as it is: not a technology, but a political framework to force their ideology on everyone
AI is first and foremost a political artefact: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
If by “conservatives” you mean the Vance/Thiel/Yarvan crowd, sure.
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I am no fan of the tech bros, but this is a trash heap of an article.
First of all, it's ultra ironic that someone who is supposedly critical of big tech uses woke terminology ("marginalized people"). Big corpos basically created wokism: Thousands of Employee Resource Groups busy with "marginalized people-issues" are far more preferable to unions.
And this example of western "fascism" is peak hypocrisy:
"Ask an image generator for a picture of two people kissing and you most often get a heterosexual couple, often white. Because that’s what the training data looks like. That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to"
Ask anyone on the street in a "non-white" country to draw a couple, and your chances to get a picture of a heterosexual one would be probably greater than what ChatGPT would put out. AI generators regularly putting out pictures of what a typical CCC-lecturer looks like today, THAT would be pure western imperialism.
"People in power, people with money – most of them men – get to make the decisions."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIBgrM4WAAAoqDw.jpg
Today's fighters against big tech are themselves completely enshrouded in the worldview that big corpos created in the first place.
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Political conservatives are generally all in on AI. There is some resistance from the “crunchy momma” wings of the conservative movement, but overall political liberals are putting up far more resistance to AI.
This isn't true, there is a massive bipartisan consensus against AI that is shared between both parties. Please stop taking the views of a small minority of people, electeds, versus what the electorate actually prefers.
This is like saying the entire democratic party is pro-crypto because of Kirsten Gillibrand is a crypto shill.
Political conservatives (at least in the US) have very little left in common with actual conservatism. They are more like neoliberals, primarily catering to the rich for accumulating wealth. So of course they are in on yet another scheme for cutting costs by screwing over normal workers.
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