AI is the real Soylent Green

The post compares corporate control of AI to the film Soylent Green, arguing that mega-corporations scan libraries, websites and centuries of human creativity and then destroy the originals, making people dependent on them for facts and truths. It names Palantir as an example of intelligence companies that collect data and sell it to governments, which it says then outsource their intelligence and dilute their own power. The author calls for holding LLM providers accountable, building decentralized language models and local agents, funding projects like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive, protesting officials, and helping each other instead of blaming differences of race, religion or belief.