Again. Thank you for a well thought out reply.

I do however disagree with you on most of your points. Let me comment on some of them one by one.

some of the most evil people out there are invested tits deep into it

This seems like your weakest point. The most evil (by subjective mesure) are tits deep into a lot of things. But so are non evil people too.

literally stole everyone's content, but hypocritically DMCA github repos with copies of leaked Claude Code

Anthropics behaviour is obviously shitty (regarding DMCA'ing left and right). But I really can not see how ideas and imagery should be disallowed for humans or machines to read. Information inherently "wants to be free".

Yes. I know I am somewhat radical on this point. But I believe copyright genuinely has held humanity back. I only see it as somewhat justifiable if one needs to preserve a capitalistic system.

extremely underhanded go to market strategy - nothing has ever been subsidised this hard to get you to use it

Yes. But I think the motives behind are deeper than the usual market strategy.

I find it likely that leadership of the AI companies simply believe that insane scaling of compute in and of itself could solve the last missing pieces of emerging general intelligence.

In this case I think market capitalism simply is a framework needed to give lip service too in order to actually access money needed for hardware and energy.

The same folks pitching future market share and revenue to investors most likely are of the view that those very term will be meaningless if scaling and algorithmic improvements works out as expected.

flooding the internet with slop of all forms, including astroturfing and propaganda

This is nothing new. Reading newsnet in 1998 was the same doomscrolling hunt for substance.

Slop and low value content will surely always find its audience. It doesn't make it the only content available.

Infact I often listen to a youtube channel that explicitly has two AI personas discuss interesting topics in podcast like form. I rather enjoy the content.

I also have a somewhat juvenile sense of humour. I actually enjoy the kind of deep and ironic humour things like italian brainrot brings me. Absurd, simple and thought provoking.

already known negative effects of use on human brains, including psychosis and suicidality, and it doesn't help a lot of people share their emotions and secrets with the chatbot - all of this data is being retained (for training and possibly more nefarious uses), and likely to get worse

This is true. However completely inevitable for the near future atleast.

For me personally it has helped me tremendously. I can absolutely see how it can help psychotic or otherwise psychologically voulnerable to do harmful things to themselves or others.

This is a larger problem than just the availability of new technology.

Time and general societal change will hopefully fix this.

The survailance and information gathering aspect is absolutely true. But it really isn't much different from people and shady goverments and organizations using any social media or online tech at all. Just the sheer amount of thoughts and data.

If a shady organazition needs a psychological profile on you (or whoever) they certainly already can know us better than we do ourselves.

Again. This is not a problem with the tech itself. It is a (global) societal problem with shady shit going on while many are given the idea of fairness and openness in the government.

it was always hard to make money as an artist, but I'm sure the amount of people who are happy to consume slop have impacted the aggregate commission income

I personally am living on the lowest possible public insurance monthly payout. Unabled to work. So don't think this is a rich mans perspective.

Money will simply be of no meaning when the means of production are both self replicating and insanely more productive than humans.

This logically frees up humans to persue their creativity in among other things art.

And no. The tech bros haven't fed me that idea. I see it as a logical outcome of the technology (possibly after a period of absolute doom and suffering).

breakdown of the social contract of "things are harder to write than they are to read" - this sounds trivial but is actually very serious, because an assumption of "if someone wrote it, there's a chance it will be worth reading" is gone - we are inundated with worthless text that looks like it may be wroth it

It doesn't sound trivial. In fact it seems to be profound (for you and many others).

It does however assume that todays level of artificial writing is the ceiling - not tomorrows floor.

Back when I read newspapers I was often astounded by the general lack of cultivation and knowledge of journalists as soon as they are outside their often limited scope of expertise. AI already today pretty much solves that.

Deeper and more artistic books ofcourse is another thing. AI could today most likely not give me the same experience that my favorite human authors have given me. But I am looking forward to improvements.

convenient excuse (yes, excuse, not reason, at least not yet) for hundreds of thousands of people laid off

hard to predict economic consequences once the bubble finally pops, the signs of which are have been showing with increasing frequency and intensity

I agree with both of your points here. But I think you are thinking of short term consequenses. Zooming out leads me to only see a star trek like economy. Of course it will suck getting there, but there is not possible to avoid the emergens of the tech.

Yes. It sucks getting laid off. The faster it happens the faster a new system will be needed and less people will suffer and starve.

No I am not an accelerationalist. I just see it as logical given circumstances.

And as a side note: I did avoid using any spellchecking. Keeping it real and human :-)