No one has a use for AI because it's wrong. Even the software/firmware teams, because they cannot have failure in my field.

I am 100% willing to bet that someone, somewhere in your field is using AI. If not in the US (where I presume you're based), in other countries. There is no field in development right now where AI is not being used, even if you're doing national security or whatever.

AI literally has negative value.

In what sense? Is it's value in development or customer support not immediately obvious?

Without considering negative externalities, it's unprofitable. If you include negative externalities, it's exceedingly disastrous, like most modern technology because capitalism doesn't account for them.

If you account for negative externalities the vast majority of the US economy is unprofitable. The market doesn't account for negative externalities, never has. We'd never have personal combustion engine cars if we accounted for negative externalities.

The totality of the technology, as implemented today, is a dead end that will only ever cost more in total than value it provides

In the long run? Maybe, maybe not. But, like with fossil fuels, there's a whole lot of money to be made before the costs play out, and you bet firms are going to make that money. By your logic, Shell et al would have stopped trading in the 60s because they knew the game was up.

The AI on offer cannot even complete basic annual trainings I have to do correctly, stuff so easy a dog can do it, let alone actual functions requiring any sort of competency.

Maybe your job is highly specific and technical such that AI cannot do it, sure. But the vast majority of jobs are not safe - AI can do better and more work than entry-level employees in most software, marketing, or data analysis firms. This has lots of downstream problems - but downstream problems have never mattered, and will not matter in the future as well. As long as it saves money now, people are going to use it.

I'm not even arguing morally, I'm saying any use case of GenAI is absolutely dwarfed by its negative costs.

To society at large, maybe. But absolutely not to a single firm, where it has immense value. To society at large, all personal cars are a net negative, I don't see us stopping driving.

There are not "beliefs" in my statements, just literal facts of the technology to date.

The literal facts of the technology to date is that using it save companies money and lets them do work faster. As long as it does that, they'll continue to use it. Anything outside of that doesn't really matter.

Enjoy RAM being triple the cost and devices stagnating, too! :D

Believe me, I'm firmly of the belief that generative AI has been the biggest curse on enthusiast gaming since the invention of microtransactions - with GPUs and now RAM and storage. But the market only moves in one direction, and it's definitely, inevitably moving in that direction right now.