AI technologies generate environmental damage, reinforce bias, and produce racist outputs. AI contributes to cognitive harms, including cases linked to suicide. AI systems raise consent and copyright violations and enable fraud, disinformation, harassment, and surveillance. Tech companies further patterns of empire while exploiting workers and using AI as an excuse to fire and de-skill labor. Statistical learning methods fail to truly reason, making association-based models inadequate for real intelligence. AI often slows people down, tends toward mediocrity and conservatism, and operates as a political technology rooted in supremacy rather than purely technical features.
Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright, the way AI tech companies further the patterns of empire, how it's a con that enables fraud and disinformation and harassment and surveillance, the exploitation of workers, as an excuse to fire workers and de-skill work, how they don't actually reason and probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence, how people
But I am more than a critic: I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. If you're pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn't read it anyway. You'd ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did no
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