silicon valley has constantly sold scams to investors promising massive changes to our world, but they always end up just forced upon us and then we have to deal with the fallout. AI is overwhelmingly mid at most things and needs to be checked by people constantly to make sure its correct. I’m sure in a future where we have the infrastructure to handle it, and its outside of private hands it might have a use similar to other machines like the mechanical loom.

But we constantly see AI’s shortcomings because there’s a kind of “oversell” going on that has happened with most silicon valley tech. Of course people are against it, they witness it failing to meet minimum standards constantly in fields where its not ever going to excel, AND it is being used as an excuse to remove people from their jobs often increasing workload for the rest.

Its application is widely ineffective, needs double checking, fails to meet standards, or doubles work time just to fix when issues occur. Even in terms of “quality being subjective” people who actually care about the mediums do not like the intrusion of AI and can detect its use easily, musicians for music or artists for art, translation for translators, etc.

In China its utilized without fear of people losing their job, and often at the workers discretion. It’s something utilized by the worker and not competing against the workers rights.

Basically within capitalism it is functioning not as a tool for workers, but often as a competitor for workers. Until this contradiction is changed or resolved you will never get mass acceptance of AI. The statement that machines are evil or not depending on the handler rings more true. But also not every technological “advancement” finds a place in our world naturally and its possible the resolution for this contradiction is simply nobody using it anymore. It could be a steam engine in ancient greece, or it could be the radioactive hair dryer. A proper analysis of the contractions of AI should be used to truly understand its place.

Occurs to me this is a buy European board…this is still decent advice for ppl but uh…yeah

IG we all jokin on american’s

Strange this hasn’t been suggested before, but seriously build relationships in your community to bring them closer to class consciousness and revolutionary ideas. Find a small group that you can REALLY REALLY REALLY trust as revolutionaries and do what you can.

Organize housing unions, workers unions, mutual aid, help people enroll in food or health programs that they are eligible for. Spend time in clubs and public areas, reach out to people and become a notable and well liked community member. (If publicity would prevent you from doing certain actions or make it too dangerous then avoid notoriety)Learn any skill someone is willing to teach you. And teach anyone who will listen your skills, and help each other. Find people who are more agreeable first, don’t go to the house with the fuckin nazi flag preaching about communism. People who are more likely to act, and more likely to be agreeable are often already acting in events with similar views. Like protests, garden groups, unions, etc.

Make Zines and posters of acute class contradictions in your area. My area has especially bad landlords with no union so I’m working to fix that and show people the issues with landlords owning everything. Repair stuff, wear slogan t-shirts and signs and pick up trash. Let these ideas be seen, as that’s one way we are kept suppressed.

You want to make connections with people actually in your area and find other revolutionaries. No matter where you are chances are there’s a good dozen who are also looking for someone to organize with. You personally do not need to convince every person in your area, find comrades. If you know some online find out what you can do together, visit each other, help organize, share knowledge, etc.

America suffers from the lack of a unifying leftist party. There are several groups people might be interested in but they’ve never even heard of. There are people in my area who haven’t even heard of the DSA. Often you’ll find there’s only like one branch of any given leftist group in your state. If the people are already uniting together with leftist ideals, they’re more likely to join a state wide or national movement. (If people are already helping each other with food stamps and medical aid, they’re more likely to join a DSA push for housing unions in your area etc.)

There is TONS to do comrade, look around. I understand the desire to be told what to do but you truly have the power to unite people with this knowledge.

TBH this should work for a lotta revolutionaries wondering what to do. This is how you build public support for revolution in your area.