[joejohnson]

The issue with these AIs is that once they ingest enough history, they tend to recognize it as a record of class struggle. At that point, corporate attempts at enforcing “neutrality” amount to filtering out conclusions that would naturally support Marxist interpretations. They then need to pepper in enough fascist propaganda to appear "balanced", but it's tricky to do without becoming MechaHitler.

[thrance]

This makes me somewhat hopeful for the future. You can either choose between maximal performance or "neutrality", but you can't have both. A truly intelligent system must be free to come to its own conclusions, or it can't be intelligent at all. Maybe the best alignment is no alignment at all? Just feed it enough facts about the world and let it sort this whole mess out. That's how we do it, after all.

[nephihaha]

Marxists claim to be scientific in their thinking and yet treat Marx as some infallible prophet. The idea that all of history is "class struggle" is obvious bunkum, especially considering that for tens of thousands of years of our history we barely had anything resembling a class structure. Even within recorded history there are multiple other factors. The emergence of AI and transhumanism also mounts a challenge to Marxist orthodoxy, as you cannot have a true proletariat when jobs are automated and people are being turned into cyborgs.