I said basically.

Ah, so there are alternatives.

Wanna bet? I close my eyes, sleep, wake up sometime (hopefully) then check.

If you can sleep as long as Rip van Winkle, you might see it change.

(Obviously the error margins are huge, but I expect capitalism to stop being the majority economic system in the world in about thirty years. Emphasis on the ‘about’.)

anarcho-communistic commune

Okay, so mentally children. Expect nothing significant from them.

Both? Some people don’t want data harvesting yet it’s done. The CEO gets capital, so do investment companies and maybe some client companies.

I don’t think data harvesting per se is going away. Even in an ideal world, the state would need to collect a lot of data about people to efficiently allocate resources (i.e. budget correctly). As for corporations, the CEO getting capital, and so on, those are results of capitalism.

You make the world a better place with the tools you have in this world. If you wait for perfect tools, you will get nowhere.

In the case of AI, your choices are over whether and which models you use. Your choice has zero impact on what others do with it. Let us take OP’s case. Their choices are (1) run an AI for some time to make an older phone model usable for some more years, and (2) don’t, and have a bunch of people buy newer phones. In this case, option 1 is clearly the better choice, in terms of energy and water use, economics, etc.

The philosophers only interpret the world in diverse ways. The point, however, is to change it make old phones usable.

basically everything is de-facto capitalism

I wouldn’t go that far. The majority mode of production of the world today is capitalism. But that doesn’t mean ‘everything’ is capitalism. Neither does it mean that the majority mode of production of the world will be capitalism tomorrow.

The same applies to energy production from fossil fuels. In fact, there the transition (to renewables) is far more visible.

If you use this in Christiania, you step out to Denmark

Did you miss a connecting statement? What is Christiania?

can only be trained by data harvesting corporations

What is the problem here? The data-harvesting part or the corporations part?

They have given five reasons for not using AI:-

• water and energy use
• worker exploitatio
• worker layoffs
• use of other’s work without consent
• not understanding what the code is actually doing

Of these, the first is a result of using fossil fuels, the second and third are a result of capitalism, and the fourth is only a problem if you believe in the whole ‘intellectual property’ charade. Only the fifth is an actual issue with AI, and that can be solved by either mandating human review, or marking AI-generated code as such and letting users use or exclude it.