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#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #BigTech #PoliticalEconomy: "If AI systems become the site of articulating social visions, a dominant factor in the make-up of the public sphere, or even a political infrastructure themselves, there is much to be said for actually subjecting them to public control as well. If this is taken to its logical conclusion, the last resort would be, horribile dictu, communization – in other words, expropriation.

Seen in this way, the open letter appears in a different light. Not merely as the technological catastrophism of a group of hysterical “longtermists,” but as an attempt to divert attention from the political consequences of this technology. For those are much more concrete than the dictatorship of the machines – but regulating them is much more dangerous for the companies and individuals who profit most from the hype around AI."

https://hannesbajohr.de/en/2023/04/08/whoever-controls-language-models-controls-politics/