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.
"I'll just read my text messages" [1]
... 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. ...
"As a writer I would hate anyone using AI to sparknote my work" [2]
you don't like sparknoting? tough luck. in late-stage capitalism there are physically too many things to read. it's physically impossible to read them all. to some extent, you're feeding AI just by creating more stuff that constantly competes with other stuff while everything is disorganized and people arbitrarily selecting things with prejudice out of a bunch of random things aggressively pushing themselves in your face is the only way for anything to get read.
to be fair this one argues for Wikipedia more than it argues for AI.