I wish it was hyperbole.
Describing our crazy world makes you sound crazy now. You seem to take me somewhat seriously so I'll develop a bit, but it's an HN comment so I can only go so far. The paper I linked or the author of Ghost in the Machine take hours to explain this way better than me.
People behind GenAI are fascists: for some it's obvious by now I hope (trump, elon musk). They are otherwise techbros who seek power and control other the world, and it doesn't matter if it causes harm [1] or a major economical crisis.
This thing has been brutally imposed onto us quickly and without debate, even if its explicit aim is to replace us. (The idea itself of being thrilled to design a system aiming at replacing human intelligence is a bit disgusting - with a very costly stochastic text generator no less! And the push to anthropolomorphize it is also disgusting).
LLM benchmarks are all rooted in eugenist (thus racist) pseudo science to measure intelligence, which of course biases them all towards these theories.
These tools of control are everywhere in all the aspects of our lives (work, culture, measure, institutions), which is another aspect of fascism.
They are built and run without care for the environment, pushing huge off-grid datacenters [2] when the people mostly don't want them, sometimes illegally cutting trees [3]. They are built stealing the work of everyone without our conscent, they hammer websites which incurs cost on the whole web only to sell it back to us through costly subscriptions (see also the ai tag jwz's blog, which I won't link from here).
Every aspect of GenAI is fascist. I wish it was hyperbole. I wish it was ridiculous.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-says-ai-benefits-...
[2] https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/off-grid-data-centers-have...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/...
People behind GenAI are fascists: for some it's obvious by now I hope (trump, elon musk). They are otherwise techbros who seek power and control other the world, and it doesn't matter if it causes harm [1] or a major economical crisis.
This thing has been brutally imposed onto us quickly and without debate, even if its explicit aim is to replace us. (The idea itself of being thrilled to design a system aiming at replacing human intelligence is a bit disgusting - with a very costly stochastic text generator no less! And the push to anthropolomorphize it is also disgusting).
LLM benchmarks are all rooted in eugenist (thus racist) pseudo science to measure intelligence, which of course biases them all towards these theories.
These tools of control are everywhere in all the aspects of our lives (work, culture, measure, institutions), which is another aspect of fascism.
They are built and run without care for the environment, pushing huge off-grid datacenters [2] when the people mostly don't want them, sometimes illegally cutting trees [3]. They are built stealing the work of everyone without our conscent, they hammer websites which incurs cost on the whole web only to sell it back to us through costly subscriptions (see also the ai tag jwz's blog, which I won't link from here).
Every aspect of GenAI is fascist. I wish it was hyperbole. I wish it was ridiculous.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-says-ai-benefits-...
[2] https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/off-grid-data-centers-have...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/...