AI is not a development in technology. It’s like Flexplay, asbestos filters for cigarettes, and leaded gasoline.

• Clip art from the 90’s was made with passion
• It didn’t threaten the environment as much
• There wasn’t any attempt to outdo real artists
• You don’t have it as a business model
• There isn’t an uproar about it
• Nothing was stolen to make the clip art

This is very confusing. AI also isn’t technological progress, just like how leaded gasoline and Flexplay wasn’t technological progress.

This “art” costs far more environmentally than any other. It uses mass amounts of electricity and water. It’s nothing like, say, eating steak instead of salad, or driving a pickup truck to work. The “miracle” of AI has to come from somewhere, after all.

Disabled people can make great art. They can also hire someone else to help them; people who work succeed more together than apart.

I also think that having someone make a nice image is not worth the sheer amount of electrical energy and water cooling needed to power the datacenters.

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If you’re talking about YouTube, that place is already hell for video creators. Many organizations, like PragerU, were already funded by fracking companies to make their videos, and they’d have an easier time covering the costs, or convincing people or the government that something else caused the cancer. The internet needs a socialist overhaul, really, and I can’t find anything else that doesn’t spawn new problems.

Back when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.

The types of places they’re on are the mainstream sites (Reddit & Twitter), and I don’t want to go there unless I have to. I honestly think a big part of the push for AI isn’t popularity at all. Nobody really likes it that much. It’s purely oligarchs who try to make their product look good to investors, and who see it as a way to replace human workers immensely easily. I’m unsure where the cryptocurrency-using techbros come from, tho. Maybe they’re bot accounts held by very few people.

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