Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal
archomrade@midwest.social 1 year agoI realize you’re not engaging leftist theory seriously here, but if you were I would recommend this paper on the topic of digital new media as viewed through a Marxist and political economy framework.
Regardless, I don’t see the exploitation of user activity as a theft of ‘personal property’(nor would marx), it is closer to the private ownership of common resources (i.e. private ownership of land and the resources on it, land being the platform where free human activity occurs, and the raw resource as the data being collected). A leftist might assert user activity and communication as a communally shared resource, not one privately exploited, and the resulting tools that utilize that common resource as one that is collectively owned, not privately owned.
Once again, it’s not about theft
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“The exploitation of user activity”… telemetry? The People’s Telemetry?
I’m sure there’s a very nice Utopia where all these things can go together, but when you address one of them at a time, you need to actually take care to not make things worse for the victims of exploitation.
Oh, and of course, great care must be taken to prevent the exploitation for moving from the corporation to the a state apparatus, especially when communication is on the line.
archomrade@midwest.social 1 year ago
Ah, now this WOULD constitute theft (or at least a severe invasion of privacy), since by all accounts a personal device is expected to be personal property, no?
I was of course referring to public communication shared on public social media (the kind used for model training, in case you’ve forgotten), not to the private activities one conducts in ones own house (as an example).
For one accusing me of reductionism, you seem quite good at it yourself.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If somebody’s phone is personal data, and they use that phone to draw some pixel art, does that make it private and no longer personal?
Does the transition occur simply when somebody shows it to somebody else, at which point the biggest and most powerful person can swoop in and use it for themselves?
archomrade@midwest.social 1 year ago
Is that a serious question?