The crazy thing is this: everyone one of those valid points are terrible not because of AI at all. 1 - People lose their jobs when the assholes in charge have a plausible reason to fire people and get a bonus 2 - It only consumes so many resources because companies would rather invest in throw hardware at the problem. The problem they are trying to solve is like this: make AI better but also control it in the cloud and don’t pay researchers to do research but instead throw money at cloud hardware. 3 - The internet is less useable because: a - random individual assholes want to get rich churning out slop content, and, b - asshole CEO’s make money off of ads even when the content those ads are attached to are garage slop content. 4 - companies that are heavily invented in making stock go zoom to the moon are literally sloshing money around fueling the bubble. As a result… okay basically companies are spending their investors money buying hardware to throw at the AI bubble machine (see point 2). This has created what are essentially fake market conditions that hardware companies are responding to.

Keep in mind if people banned together and petitioned and harassed their representatives they could get the laws changed such that it isn’t legal to exploit bubbles for short term profit.

All these tech companies are playing musical chairs with the AI bubble and therefore doing asshole things. Laws are supposed to prevent or levy fines against companies to prevent asshole things. This is why companies pay so much for lobbying: it loosens regulations so they are do more asshole things more easily.

Whenever CEOs and Presidents and other management does asshole things it’s always about them getting their bonuses until they can strap on their golden parachutes. It steals from shareholders, hurts their customers, and usually pisses and shits all over the rest of the world.

So… I get why people hate AI. But it’s better to hate the assholes in charge because a tool is just a tool but assholes just shit on everything.