AI is deeply integrated into the global fascist project. Worries about Skynet and Roko's Basilisk and the like are nonsense, but anyone concerned about fascism should be worried about the way these platforms centralize, control and generate narratives as well as manipulate people on an emotional level. AI encompasses everything that everyone hates and fears about social media, dialed up to 11.

None of this requires selling your labor to a company to pay rent on your existence. The premise that the value of a human life is equivalent to the value created for an employer is capitalist propaganda. You are not your job, and your efforts have value beyond their value to the market.

The "hivemind" is "society."

The problem is many AI developers don't want to have to care about the code, or human expertise. They consider the process beneath them. They want to trust the LLM implicitly, believing in its superior intelligence. They want to already be living in the sci-fi post scarcity post singularity universe where they can just say "Computer make me a photoshop" and it just happens, perfectly and without error. And all else being equal... that attitude will never lead to quality software, it will only lead to vibecoded slop.

It's sad because there are already plenty of open source alternatives to Adobe[0], but none of them are AI generated, so no one is going to bother trying to support or contribute to them. Except with vibe-coded slop PRs.

[0]https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

Some people, maybe. But Trump already had four years in office, he and his base were known quantities, their beliefs were broadcast all over the media and social media. Almost everyone who voted for him knew exactly what he was about, don't let them tell you otherwise.

You need to update your priors a fair bit. The government has already sent innocent people to prison camps and gunned them down in the street.

Because a significantly large demographic of HN is aggressively pro-AI to the point of cultishness and the mere existence of such applications, to them, is a vindication of all of their beliefs and an expression of triumph over all of the critics and doubters.

Note that it doesn't actually matter how well they work, or whether they work at all. Many people will assume by default that they do, and that anyone claiming otherwise is just a deluded, bitter Luddite, and will praise and defend them regardless of quality. The rules and standards that apply to human written software don't apply to AI generated software.

If so I personally hope the actual leftists win but history doesn't lead me to hold out much hope.

They'll pick a white Christian man who's opposed to Trump's personality and behavior but agrees that "wokism" and progressive politics have been a failure and that the Democrats need to abandon social issues and focus on economic policy, and that rather than pursue partisan retribution we need to simply "move on" from the Trump years.

I hate Photoshop's model as much as anyone but (pre-AI) solutions already exist which people already use.

That said, as snowflakey as Star Trek fans are, I would love to see their reaction to Dora the Explorer ordering Batman to launch photon torpedos at Unicron. They'd probably complain about "yet another DEI captain."

No, because they aren't modifying the software, a proprietary service is modifying the software. The freedom belongs to the company owning the LLM, not the person using it. If the freedom belonged to the person using it, then they would be able to exercise that freedom without an LLM. As they cannot, they did not in any way gain freedom by using the LLM.

If you think remixing games using an LLM is cool, I don't want to take that from you. It just isn't FOSS. The wholesale contempt that so many AI users have for human coding demonstrates that it's an entirely different culture with different ethics and different goals.