Since as most of anyone who has travelled to China or knows about the ‘private’ industry of the country, the CCP has full access to the corporate leadership and thus can control Corps by proxy. Remember when billionaare, Alibaba CEO Ma was taken down by the CCP for getting too lippy against the regime and as a show of blatant force was literally disappeared, for months? I do.
This is a good thing btw. Why should billionaires use their massive wealth to dictate how society ought to be run? Is Elon Musk practically running the country supposed to be a good thing to you? The CPC liquidating billionaires should not concern you no matter how you personally feel about the CPC because it’s not like you voted those billionaires to be billionaires anyways.
As they say, don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
AI and so many other pointless online discourseTM that can summarized as “does X suck/should X be abolished/will X exist under socialism” follow two basic sides of an argument:
X only sucks because of capitalism and under socialism, X will actually be good for society.
X will undergo such qualitative change under socialism that it is no longer X but Y.
All AI discourseTM follow this basic pattern. On one side, you have people like bidetmarxman who argue that AI only sucks because capitalism sucks and on the other side, you have people say that AI sucks while also saying that the various algorithms and technologies that are present in useful automation doesn’t count as AI but is something different.
The way to not fall into the trap is to ask these simple questions:
Does X exists in AES?
What is AES’s relationship with X?
If we try to apply this to AI in general, the answers are very simple. AI is not only pushed by the Chinese state, but it’s already very much part of Chinese society where even average people benefit from things like self-driving buses. China is even incorporating AI within its educational curriculum. This makes sense since people are going to use it anyways, so might as well educate them on proper use and the pitfalls of misuse.
The question of AI art within China is far murkier. There seems to be some hesitation. For example, there was a recent law passed that stated AI art must be labeled as such. I don’t think they would make an effort to enforce disclosure of AI art being AI art if it were so innocent.