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I was interviewed by Diyar Saraçoğlu, translator of 'Yapay Zekâya Direnmek' (the Turkish edition of ‘Resisting AI’), for their series on The Political Construction of Artificial Intelligence https://danmcquillan.org/diyar_interview.html
"Before we get to democratic data governance we should ask; do we even need to turn this situation into data? Are we just ‘seeing like a State’, and if so what are the alternative ways to assess and make decisions about what interventions are needed?"
"This means that the companies get to decide what is 'unacceptable' output from an LLM, which is a very political form of power. This doesn't just apply to obscene content but to historical facts and political ideas. In a world where the route to knowledge passes through LLMs, the definitions of what is 'normal' and 'acceptable' is entirely under the control of tech corporations".
"The belief in AGI which led directly to the founding of OpenAI and DeepMind is at its heart a belief in racial and biological supremacy, so we shouldn’t be surprised when we see the overlap between Silicon Valley and fascistic politics."
@danmcquillan Capital as machinic erasure of all that is not profitable and the annihilation of anything deemed to stand in the way. With the actions of the Mump administration, the truth of your statement becomes ever more chilling.
@atomless "Mumps usually passes without causing serious damage to a person's health. Serious complications are rare." - if only!
@danmcquillan it is a painful and unsightly swelling, no doubt.
@atomless 
with an orange hue (and associated patches of Musky whiteness)
@danmcquillan now there's a mental image that will haunt