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I'm going to be honest, I'm not confident in the future of AI and think it would've been ultimately better if it weren't invented to begin with.
I know that it can have genuinely incredible applications that would benefit humanity as a whole, namely healthcare, accident prevention (like with airplanes, ships, shuttles, workplace related, etc.), and weather/natural disaster predictions. I'd love if that were all that it could do.
But I've also seen AI in warfare, surveillance, and policing used to seriously harm innocent people. Employers are already using AI to unfairly filter people out of jobs, and I believe black rock also uses AI to buy up properties. Not to mention that jobs like illustrators, writers, musicians, etc will all inevitably be replaced by their employers looking to consolidate workplace power from unions and increase profit margins.
Boycotting AI art is one way to slow down its growth that I can think of, but what else can be done?
It needs to be regulated and curbed before it's too late.
They want an easy solution that doesn't actually require massive political and social upheavals that could potentially lead humanity to the brink of nuclear armageddon. People want the revolution to be painless, bur we know from experience it will not be.
It's not so much brainworms as wishful thinking.