Nobody raised the theft of creative work or the generation of young people being locked out of the labour market. Welcome to humanity's slop era, writes Ash Sarkar.
Pretty much, yes. All of them are either obvious nonsense or actually a complaint about something else. The water usage claims are just obviously insane - it does not use half a litre per query and the water is not unable to ever be reused (yes I have seen both of these in the wild), the rest of the environmental claims are bullshit because the impact of every ai data centre in the world is less than JUST McDonalds by at least two orders of magnitude (and one Big Mac uses enough energy to produce to generate quarter of a million images!), let alone oil companies and manufacturing and the like - don’t claim hating ai is about being environmentally conscious unless you’re out there campaigning against things that actually have an impact! The claims about it not being real art or having no soul or that sort of thing were all made against photography a century ago and I bet you own something with a camera on, and many of them against pre-mixed paints before that (the media of the time dragged Turner for that). Claims about it deleting code or whatever all all user error. Claims it talked kids into suicide are lies told by the lawyers of grieving parents looking for something to blame (in every case it has transpired that it tried to talk them out of suicide).
The only one that holds any weight is about it being used for misinformation, and that is a very real problem, but it’s a problem of political corruption and media literacy. We really do need to do something about media literacy, not least people who believe every bad thing said about ai and attack and hurl abuse at anyone who tries to counter it.
Sorry, I want to give you a chance to explain yourself, are you trying to say every negative argument against AI is a lie that has been debunked?
I only ask because I genuinely cannot believe any sane person would attempt to argue that in good faith…
Pretty much, yes. All of them are either obvious nonsense or actually a complaint about something else. The water usage claims are just obviously insane - it does not use half a litre per query and the water is not unable to ever be reused (yes I have seen both of these in the wild), the rest of the environmental claims are bullshit because the impact of every ai data centre in the world is less than JUST McDonalds by at least two orders of magnitude (and one Big Mac uses enough energy to produce to generate quarter of a million images!), let alone oil companies and manufacturing and the like - don’t claim hating ai is about being environmentally conscious unless you’re out there campaigning against things that actually have an impact! The claims about it not being real art or having no soul or that sort of thing were all made against photography a century ago and I bet you own something with a camera on, and many of them against pre-mixed paints before that (the media of the time dragged Turner for that). Claims about it deleting code or whatever all all user error. Claims it talked kids into suicide are lies told by the lawyers of grieving parents looking for something to blame (in every case it has transpired that it tried to talk them out of suicide).
The only one that holds any weight is about it being used for misinformation, and that is a very real problem, but it’s a problem of political corruption and media literacy. We really do need to do something about media literacy, not least people who believe every bad thing said about ai and attack and hurl abuse at anyone who tries to counter it.