[jaredcwhite]

There are so many things you could say that about, and we actually did make real progress as a society. Go back ~80 years, and it would seem ludicrous in the extreme that we wouldn't always have chain-smokers in every bar, restaurant, apartment building, etc. And yet society fought back against Big Tobacco. If I try to walk into my local bar and light a cig, I'll be tossed out.

Rivers that were once poisonous are now swimmable.

People move back to city centers and get rid of their cars.

If generative AI has negative effects on society (yes), we can and we should fight back. Giving up now won't do anything other than guarantee the awfulness continues.

[ein0p]

It's mathematics. You can't put this genie back into the bottle. Also do realize that you are a tiny minority inside a tiny bubble. E.g. the number of cars has been increasing over time, and you don't even know. Upwards of 40% of office workers in the West use AI in their work one way or another. Having it summarize a Slack thread or generate a picture for a slide deck is not going to kill anyone or turn your computer into poison or whatever. It might even (much to the horror of the morally pure), make the work more fun at times, by automating the more bullshit parts of it. If we play this one right, our grandchildren might not need to work at all.