[latexr]

> I would love to see an anti-AI take that doesn't hinge on the idea that technology forces people to be lazy/careless/thoughtless.

Are you genuinely saying you never saw a critique of AI on environmental impact, or how it amplifies biases, or how it widens the economic gap, or how it further concentrates power in the hands of a few, or how it facilitates the dispersion of misinformation and surveillance, directly helping despots erode civil liberties? Or, or, or…

You don’t have to agree with any of those. You don’t even have to understand them. But to imply anti-AI arguments “hinge on the idea that technology forces people to be lazy/careless/thoughtless” is at best misinformed.

Go grab whatever your favourite LLM is and type “critiques of AI”. You’ll get your takes.

[jayd16]

I'm not an AI zealot but I think some of these are over blown.

The energy cost is nonsensical unless you pin down a value out vs value in ratio and some would argue the output is highly valuable and the input cost is priced in.

I don't know if it will end up being a concentrated power. It seems like local/open LLMs will still be in the same ballpark. Despite the absurd amounts of money spent so far the moats don't seem that deep.

Baking in bias is a huge problem.

The genie is out of the bottle as far as people using it for bad. Your own usage won't change that.

[bigfishrunning]

The motes are incredibly deep, because the established players are being propped up by VC money. Without that VC money, it's impossible to compete, unless you have a way to sustain losses for an indefinite amount of time.

[latexr]

I’ll say it again:

> You don’t have to agree with any of those. You don’t even have to understand them. But to imply anti-AI arguments “hinge on the idea that technology forces people to be lazy/careless/thoughtless” is at best misinformed.

We can certainly discuss some of those points, but that’s not what is in question here. The OP is suggesting there is only one type of anti-AI argument they are familiar with and that they’d “love” to see something different. But I have to question how true that is considering the myriad of different arguments that exist and how easy they are to find.