Last Topic: 12:47:58am, 10/27/2025
Last Post: 1:47:52pm, 10/31/2025
My view on AI as a whole is starkly negative, for pretty much all the reasons stated here. Ai definitely has a place as a tool, specifically for ones that are fine-tuned specifically for fields of, say, medical research. There's plenty of niche cases for specific AI tools to be wonderfully beneficial.
For everything else, it's dogshit.
That's the thing, too - no one is using it as a tool or as an assistant. Rather, people are wholesale surrendering EVERYTHING to AI, and it's startling in just how many forms that has taken place. There's that now infamous case of the lawyer getting in deep shit (disbarred, I think) for using AI to do his case, and it cited past cases that straight-up don't exist. There are stories of people getting busted for using AI to write their wedding vows. People use it to draft their Fantasy Football lineups. Etc. upon etc. Not questioning it, either, just blindly letting AI tell them what to do. Considering the already plummeting literacy rates and overall education scores *already*, what we are having is a whole generation growing up that will have AI in their hands from day one. By the time I'm 65, I'll be talking to 20 year olds that will be functionally braindead.
The worst part is, it's all for nothing. Aside from niche cases I mentioned above, AI taking over everything is helping no one. Silicone Valley has admitted as much, and it's an open secret that the entire thing is a speculation vehicle to make the already insanely rich corporations richer. None of this is supposed to be profitable for 10 years, and it's a tech bubble that's guaranteed to burst. Meanwhile, some of these facilities consume more electricity than the entire state they are in consumers in a whole year, and literally drains rivers with the amount of water they need to run. We don't even have the electricity demand to supply all the hypothetical data centers, and prices for electricity are starting to spike.
In summary, it's a technology that makes almost everything worse, rapes the planet, is making humans dumber and reliant on it, all so the richest entities on the planet can get even richer. As of now, it's an absolute net negative on humanity.
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