The moral? It's always been an unbalanced society tumbling into the future. Even if AI has both downsides and upsides we will still make it a part of us. Consider the scale - 1B people chatting for the likes of 1T tokens/day. That amount of AI-language has got to influence human language and abilities as well.
Point by point rebuttals:
- environmental harms - so does any use of electricity, fuel or construction
- reinforcement of bias - all ours, reflected back, and it depends on prompting as well
- generation of racist output - depends on who's prompting what
- cognitive harms and AI supported suicides - we are the consequence sink for all things AI, good and bad
- problems with consent and copyright - only if you think abstractions should be owned
- enables fraud and disinformation and harassment and surveillance - all existed before 2020
- exploitation of workers, excuse to fire workers and de-skill work - that is AI being used as excuse, can't be AI's fault
- they don’t actually reason and probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence - apparently you don't need reasoning to win gold at IMO
- people think it makes them faster when it makes them slower - and advanced LLMs are just 2.5 years old, give people time to learn to use it
- it is inherently mediocre - all of us have been at some point
- it is at its core a fascist technology rooted in the ideology of supremacy - LOL, generalizing Grok to all LLMs?
The author mixes hate of AI with hate of people behind AI and hate of how other people excuse their actions blaming AI.