I wanted to highlight one practical use of generative AI. There’s a Russian Marxist-Leninist channel called “Думай Сам / Думай Сейчас” (“Think for Yourself / Think Now”), which in my opinion produces some of the highest-quality communist video content on YouTube.

I think they make partial use of AI to generate images for community posts or shorts, here for example:

They also use AI for showing old historical photos with some movement, like people walking or moving their hands, to keep their videos dynamic. I don’t think it’s a bad thing since it reduces the workload and adds aesthetic value. And if I have to be honest, I didn’t even notice at first that they were using it, and they still do a lot of manual work, between scripting, animating images manually, editing and doing 3D modeling and animation.

Also remember that anti-communists/reactionaries (eg. PragerU) get millions of dollar of budget and thus they can produce their shit at industrial quantities. We, on the other hand, have to be resourceful with what tools are available.

That being said, AI like everything else is weaponized under capitalism, but I think we all know that.

And I know some people usually lament about AI looking bad or removing creativity, and while I disagree with that, here I’m talking about how it can lighten labor for agitprop, not to substitue creativity or fire people or whatever. Not everyone can learn perspective, anatomy, coloring, shading, etc. just to post agitprop that looks cool online. Again, this from an agitprop point of view.

Food for thought food for thought