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Going beyond the specifics of the Jam? Ok! Hi, I disagree. 

Offshore radio was very cool and largely embraced for many many years and in some forms continues to this day. All sorts of groups across all political stances embraced it as a way to avoid government monopolies. I have never heard anything about an anarchist (other than anarcho primitivists?) who was rejecting or decrying any sort of pirate broadcast. 

As far as the early internet is concerned, there was worry due to the fact the early  infrastructure of the internet was using military technologies/companies. But, there was a large social movement and anarchist presence from the very beginning. Look up the Cypherpunks, read their activism and manifestos, etc. They are also very cool. 

Feel free to share what evidence you have for that claim, because honestly I have no idea why you made that claim to support your argument for AI. 

Also, it is a harm to programmers. Every interaction you have with LLMs teaches more to the LLM. It is watching you too, harvesting every request and scrap of data you exchange. Please remember, the problem that AI is trying to solve, is WAGES. So yes, it will cause great harm to many many entry level programmers. 

The harm to creativity is this. Someone would have made something. Because someone asked their AI model to create, they did not. How many cute janky doodles never got shared with the world? How many artists never built up their skills and confidence to create more things? How many artists never found their style? Or worse, saw their style get scraped and remixed by the machine? Are you sharing studio ghibli selfies? 

When you say decades, that is a large amount of time. That puts AI on the same level as Wifi, stem cell treatments, and additive manufacturing in your home  with 3D printers. AI requires data centers, it requires mass data collection.  AI will always be an alloyed good. A product built and bound to  massive corporations that have no respect for you, for copyright, for art, for workers.  

(Data Centers are causing all sorts of other problems too!, raising power & fuel prices, water management, pollution, violation of US EPA regulations, consolidation of the internet into corpo control, etc.)

I do not reject AI out of "ideological purity". I refuse it as a moral necessity.  I find its use immoral. GenAI is rent extraction on the act of creating. 

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