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Ignoring all your weird patronization of the global south…

If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries, but the primary origin is still American.

No idea if the main developer, comrade dessalines, is American, but they have a Che Guevara profile pic.

Here’s a snippet from the US atrocities section of their essays repo:

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela

Two of the other original devs are Nutomic and SleeplessOne1917. Nutomic has a Fidel Castro pfp, and SleeplessOne1917 uses the year of the October revolution in their username. Safe to say the devs of Lemmy do not like America. They also admin lemmygrad.ml

Might want to check your assumptions (and western chauvinism)

If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American based communist revolutionaries. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries the great satan, but the primary origin is still American Marxist-Leninist.

FTFY!

You read correctly. Just wanted to clarify for posterity. :)

It steals from the copyright holders in order to make corporate AI money without giving back to the creators.

This is a liberal criticism, not a leftist one. Leftists do not believe in private property, let alone expanding private property to include ideas as “intellectual property”

A leftist framing of this critique is that one of the primary objectives of LLMs is to bring publicly accessible information, i.e. the commons, into the realm of private property, where one must exchange one’s personal data (read: power) to access what already exists in the commons.

Namely, the scraping required for LLM training can be considered exploitation of workers for profit. Workers or volunteers created, wrote, organized, or edited the content. Content that is now used to generate a profit, profit that the workers never see a penny of. This content is repackaged and sold back to the workers.