User:RD/AgainstAI/list

collection of bad arguments against generative AI which might be used for the purposes of building AI alternatives.
I am so tired of literally every argument against AI being bad, and being so bad it's more productive to argue at the person about a terrifying future where AI won and either did something theoretically good, mooting the bad argument, or is doing things so frightening the person arguing against AI has to genuinely question whether they currently have the power to prevent them and how to get that power.

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"I'll just read my text messages" [1]
I'm not sure this is a good argument. You've just half-convinced me that YouTube should fit all video captions and comments with an AI personalized to every user's individual speaking pattern so right-wingers and "apolitical" Christians can finally hear everything in terms of nation, guns, and Jesus and they'll finally vote right and U.S. democracy can finally be fixed.
This is one of the only things ChatGPT is "good for": leading people into spirals where they believe whatever it says because it validates them and mimics their speaking patterns.
Hell, if some soon-to-be incel got a text about breaking up from his girlfriend and the AI was able to summarize it just right, it could theoretically teach him to think about women's feelings and leave the world with one less incel.
Bad argument against AI.

(Note: I'm against AI. But all the arguments people give against it are so terrible I always end up arguing about a world where AI won and they just have to live with it.)

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