Many of these trends were happening before GPT, but it sounds better to say it’s because of AI and not shareholder value.

Reminds me of some questions about whether Epstein was involved with the state of Israel. We now know that Israel was blackmailing Bill Clinton.

you’re just personally insulted.

I swear to God this attitude is why people don’t like what you’re saying. I am all for weighing the two against each other but the “I am more moral than thou” is why I left the church.

Some Democratic politicians flirt with the idea because they think it will help their chances to become president, like Newsom: https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/03/newsom-transgender-athletes/

I believe in man made climate change, just not from burning fossil fuels. Now let me tell you about the promise of geoengineering…

Good for you staying alive, but why does your opinion matter on whether I get my kids vaccinated?

I make exceptions for class traitors.

Working in a low trust environment is not good for one’s health, but so is not eating.

With you up until bringing the far left into this. What does universal healthcare, trans rights or taxing billionaires have to do with the surveillance state, aside from dismantling it?

But not by the white people.

Imagine being married to someone who is openly a Nazi and you are like: “it’s not a deal breaker”. And then your neighbors reward you with a political office.

Acting with “unreasonable disproportionate aggression” is not going to make them safer.

There’s a difference between seeing and perceiving. If you see AI slop and don’t see how it is different than something crafted by a human expert, that is a problem of one’s perception.

1. How Generative AI is framed by the industry is an affront to humanistic values.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/tech-ceos-dont-seem-to-realise-just-how-anti-human-their-ai-fanaticism-is-and-i-think-its-all-because-of-the-enlightenment/

2. It’s not even close to consciousness. For those of us who understand how these things work it’s almost an insult to make the comparison.

https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html

3. All the other unethical considerations mentioned elsewhere by others (stealing art, water usage, politics).

Many restaurants are allowed to pay their employees below minimum wage. They expect tips to fill that gap.

It should but it doesn’t. Like for a while starbucks tips would go towards the shift that cleans the place.

Are clean surfaces something special?

We need our own court at this point

Does Japan / type-A not have grounded circuits?

The point is that being a consumer of AI is not seizing the means of production. If you’re not spending millions of dollars training and operating the AI to actually own it, the power you have is on lease and the terms can change at anytime without regard to your needs or wishes.