u/progpixelutionary

The most vocal critics of AI technology often come from social layers historically insulated from capitalism's everyday brutality and exploitation. They have lost sight of capital's core function: the systematic extraction of surplus value by exploiting workers, seizing the wealth they produce, and discarding them when they no longer serve profit. For the first time, the creative careers these individuals viewed as stable, respected, and permanent now confront the same instability, wage pressure, and job insecurity that industrial workers, service employees, and laborers have endured for three centuries. They are now witnessing capital's relentless logic unfold in real time, as automation and technological change reshape the labor process across every sector to serve the drive for accumulation.

Writers, musicians, and visual artists frequently occupy a social position separated from the material production that sustains daily life. This separation encourages them to understand their creative output as individual property and personal expression, rather than as labor that becomes a commodity bought and sold under capitalism. As their intermediate social position, neither capital owner nor wage worker, becomes increasingly precarious, they reproduce a well-documented historical pattern: when privileged or semi-privileged groups face decline, they consistently appeal to the working class for defense of their privileges and status. The medieval Church mobilized popular sentiment against monarchical centralization. Landed aristocrats called for worker loyalty to resist the ascending capitalist class. Today, these same cultural producers demand restrictions on AI development after spending decades indifferent to how capital systematically undermines, displaces, and impoverishes ordinary workers across manufacturing, logistics, education, and service sectors.

Their appeals for collective action and solidarity emerge exclusively when their own social standing faces direct threat. This pattern reveals that their call for unity serves not the interests of the working class as a whole, but the preservation of their own privileged position. The correct line is to build solidarity centered on the needs of all workers, uniting cultural producers with the broader working class against the capitalist system that exploits us all.

The loudest anti-AI voices come from people historically shielded from class antagonisms, in this day and age, it is capitalism. They have forgotten how capital has always exploited, stolen, and discarded labor to extract surplus value. Now, for the first time, the comfortable creative jobs they assumed were permanent are facing the same precarity the working class has endured for three centuries. They get to watch it happen in real time.

Writers, musicians, and artists are so alienated from material production that they mistake their art for personal property rather than commodified labor. Yet as petty-bourgeois anxiety peaks, they are repeating a familiar historical pattern. When elites lose status, they always beg workers for protection. The Church appealed to the masses against the monarchy. Feudal lords demanded working-class loyalty against the rising bourgeoisie. Now, these same creatives demand AI be destroyed after decades of ignoring how capital routinely dismantles ordinary workers.

They only demand solidarity when it protects their own position.

I use LLMs as externalized executive function. By applying dialectical materialism forcing the model to hold thesis and antithesis until synthesis emerges. I turn a a weak taxonomic and positivism riddled tool into a knowledge-production engine. The result isn't just answers; it's a qualitative leap in my own capacity to think through contradiction.