"AI should serve humanity—not empire. " ⬅I love this, it is very true and sadly, we're headed in the opposite direction if we are not yet there already
AI doesn’t emerge from nowhere. It requires the tools of empire to exist—whether that empire is hegemonic, economic, or both. The scale of compute, the access to training data, the ongoing energy demands: all of it runs on infrastructures built and controlled by oligarchs and sustained by megacorporations.
Even the most idealistic open-source LLMs need access to massive data centers, GPU clusters, and cloud infrastructure—none of which are meaningfully “open.” They sit atop layers of extraction and capital consolidation.
The myth of decentralized AI is comforting, but it’s just that—a myth. Until the tools themselves are liberated, the outputs will always reflect the conditions of their creation.
"AI should serve humanity—not empire. " ⬅I love this, it is very true and sadly, we're headed in the opposite direction if we are not yet there already
AI doesn’t emerge from nowhere. It requires the tools of empire to exist—whether that empire is hegemonic, economic, or both. The scale of compute, the access to training data, the ongoing energy demands: all of it runs on infrastructures built and controlled by oligarchs and sustained by megacorporations.
Even the most idealistic open-source LLMs need access to massive data centers, GPU clusters, and cloud infrastructure—none of which are meaningfully “open.” They sit atop layers of extraction and capital consolidation.
The myth of decentralized AI is comforting, but it’s just that—a myth. Until the tools themselves are liberated, the outputs will always reflect the conditions of their creation.
Well put!