Seeing people use AI to post to DU is weird

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71. LLMs - generative AI tools - are unethical, illegally trained tools that no one with any respect for

the creatives whose work was stolen to train the AI should EVER use, unless forced to do so by their job or school.

If you're fine with the theft of the world's knowledge and intellectual property because genAI makes some things more convenient for you, it says a lot about you, but none of it is good.

It dumbs down and deskills users. It discourages critical thinking and creativity.

It's been a wrecking ball taken to education.

It's good for fraud, whether students cheating or people of any age pretending to have knowledge, skills, talent and even basic ideas they don't have.

Good for criminal fraud, which it's used for a lot.

Good for deepfakes, including porn - a popular use of it.

Good for data gathering and surveillance, which it's in demand for, from businesses and governments alike. Good for increasing the power and control exerted by those businesses and governments.

It's bad for the environment, with some AI companies having given up on previous environmental goals while they hope that AI will somehow save us from destroying the planet.

It's bad for our information ecosystem, polluting it with AI slop.

It's being peddled to businesses as a way to replace workers, not help them or shorten work weeks, and you're hearing less and less from the AI bros about the need for a UBI.

And it absolutely does not belong on a message board, where the purpose is communication between humans, not bots.