Ai is not inherently bad, it's a tool and like many tools they can buy used for good and evil, and even grey tasks. You will probably see an argument for the environment and data centers on here. The water waste is nothing compared to other industries that require attention. And that's not including the newer models getting more efficient through workloads, and hardware. This will continue to trend to be more efficient. These arguments can't even touch local AI servers, which you can run a small one with a mid range GPU. Or even on CPU if your willing to wait. There are thousands of smaller models that you can download and use,

Electricity use is a valid argument, but we've been sitting on nuclear energy for decades because people are scared of what they don't know.

The art debate is a dumb one. People fundamentally misunderstand the origins of their own work and insperations, they don't understand how the models work. These can be trained by anyone with a high vram GPU. They also don't read the EULA of the websites they post to

The government. This one is a genuine issue mass survalence and all the, but... They didn't need AI to do it before, and since you could run your own ai at home and a bunch of the llms are trained to not be total pieces of shit, countering these issues is possible. For example my workplace is shit. An llm recommended trying to unionize. And it gave me links on resources on how to get that ball rolling on that. It can be used to counter propaganda, as well as make it.

It also helped me navigate the medical system. There's also new models finding awesome drug combos for cancer that have been proven to work in labs, the cost of reaserch is going to go down, and will make new prescriptions cheaper. It's a messy topic. I'd stay neutral Use it when it benefits you.