Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation
Micah White, co-founder of Occupy Wall Street, has developed an AI app called Outcry aimed at supporting progressive activists. The app functions as a private, on-device AI mentor, providing specialized advice tailored for left-wing movements. This initiative represents a growing trend of utilizing AI technology to empower activist groups against the backdrop of a predominantly conservative tech industry.
- ▪Outcry is designed as a private AI mentor for activists and organizers.
- ▪The app's dataset is entirely offline, ensuring privacy for users.
- ▪It is the first known LLM specifically created for left-wing activists.
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In an era where Silicon Valley’s conservatism is both expressed openly and becoming more intense by the day, it’s strange to think that tech was once seen as a hive of liberalism. The right-wing nature of today’s tech industry means that its products tend to also be seen as serving right-wing interests, either in their actual operation (like X’s openly and unrepentantly right-wing chatbot Grok) or by the simple fact that their existence serves to enrich a small group of very powerful, very conservative…
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