Stream of Thought: Socialist AI

It’s kind of weird how when you use Claude Opus it tags its commits with Co-authored-by.

What’s weird about it is like it’s anthropomorphizing the tool. And I think it shows a deeper issue, for lack of a better word, with people’s perception of artificial intelligence products.

They’re really just tools, and they allow us to do more and increase your domain knowledge faster if you know how to use them for learning, and really they’re like an amazing companion for that purpose.

But when we get into the economic implications and societal implications, people really shit on them. And of course they should. Environmental issues, I’m totally down to push back.

I’m a bit of a hypocrite. I use them all the time and I enjoy them, but I totally want more environmental control and a more sustainable model for artificial intelligence so that it can reach everyone and be good enough to do the automation of most human work that’s meaningless, which obviously should open the doorway to universal basic income.

But it’s like, we don’t need to all have Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.4. We need social infrastructure so society owns the data centers, so public programs get access to models like Kimi K2, which is a great open source model. It should be like a library service. You hit it for inference and you pay it like a regular community thing, but the city houses the infrastructure for the models and it’s what draws people to it so that they can come and learn from it.

That’s the point. The city houses the infrastructure for the models, people come to it and learn from it, and all of that domain knowledge becomes public access. That’s what I want to see in the future. That’s the future I’m looking forward to.

But yeah, anyway, it’s just weird. Co-authored-by, really? Bro, you’re not doing anything. You’re just a giant tool full of tokens with weights tied to pieces of information that have all been normalized for you to munch up, punk.

Anyway, just kidding. Love my AI tools.

Need to tell you guys about my game I’m working on. It’s in the vein of classic Might and Magic games, but of course with contemporary game systems, focusing of course on a great user experience and also reinventing the wheel on a classic, which is a throwback to my previous blog.

All right, well that’s enough for today. I actually moved today. I could tell you about that, but instead I’ll append my thoughts on moving from my other lecture I gave to myself. All right, it’s not a lecture. I call it audio journaling. That’s all it is. I’m just journaling.

All right, ciao.