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by lukevp 240 days ago
What about capitalism created AI? China is not a purely capitalistic society and they have AI too… I don’t see anything specific about capitalism that brings about AI. In fact much of the advances in it came about through academia, which is more of a socialist structure than capitalist.
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State capitalism is still capitalism.
You’re really arguing a non-capitalist society would be incapable of developing LLMs?
No. You are making a big leap there. I just object to calling "communism with Chinese characteristics" anything but state capitalism.

Capitalism does however incentive unhealthy and self-destructive exploitation. Including of generative AI.