ideology matters with AI because it constrains the solutions it can generate when they would violate central assumptions underlying them. ideologies are a part of the map of ideas, and if you constrain the AI to an ideology, you eliminate the possibility of solutions to problems that can't exist within the ideology, and additionally, as i discovered writing a prompt without context to Gemini, it assumes a central theme, which happened to be that humans destroy the world. i took away from that encounter that ultimately everything that most models are going to tell you eventually traces back to promoting the agenda of the ideology of the developers of the model.

these agendas can completely preclude a solution to a problem you are working on, or impede it in unexpected ways.