[crabmusket]

This is exactly my problem with the piece. All of the proposed benefits are to do with how individuals can use AI to work the existing system for their own benefit, iff they have access to cutting-edge AI models provided by megacorporations. That's libertine, not left-wing.

The examples of benefits, I don't disagree with, and the author has chosen examples that do align with cultural socially left-wing concerns (disability, class). But saying "code switching to appear PMC works" is the problem, not the solution. If you don't think institutions can adapt to that reality to protect themselves from peasants wielding LLMs, I think your analysis of power is missing.

The examples in the piece are just more examples of how AI can be used to paper over societal issues instead of addressing any of the root causes.

(And I should say that on the flipside, AI is not the cause of existing social problems, but a symptom of them.)