Explain how protein folding software, which predates “genAI” by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.

No, laziness is good. Laziness begets engineering.

The issue is that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) is built upon the stolen works of countless artists.

The issue is that it consumes massive amounts of resources and energy to produce mediocre results at best.

The issue is that it threatens the livelihood of whole segments of society, especially the ones who contribute the most to human culture.

The issue is that it’s not sustainable. Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new. It can’t replace what it’s destroying.

The issue is that it’s so vastly inefficient that the data centres needed to sustain it are becoming a major contributor to global warming.

The issue is that its bubble is causing massive price increases in consumer computer parts.

The issue is that when it pops it’ll take the rest of the economy with it.

The issue is that it’s a gateway drug. It’s being sold at a loss to destroy the human competition, and will inevitably increase massively in price once it’s become a necessary part of everyone’s process.

The issue is that it’s being forced everywhere regardless of its uselessness for the task, replacing technologies that were actually useful and making everything less useable and more inefficient.

The issue is that it’s making everything less reliable, and will inevitably cause massive damage and loss of life.

The issue is that LLM use has been demonstrated to cause brain damage, yet they elude regulation and the companies selling them have yet to face consequences.

The issue is that all of this makes it an existential threat to humanity, and a significant contributor to the ones we were already facing.

The issue is that, once you’ve taken into account all the pros and cons, doing everything possible to ensure it ceases to exist as soon as possible in any way, shape, or form, together with the companies selling it and the CEOs responsible for them and any politicians and investors enabling them, becomes an evident moral and ethical imperative.

Smartphones are actually useful, and don’t have the moral, ethical, economic, societal, and existential issues that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) has.

Of course not, but I think not supporting those that use it to produce something you want to enjoy doesn’t necessarily imply not enjoying what they produce, as long as it’s not too thoroughly damaged by their use of it and as long as it can be obtained in ways that won’t support them.

Yes. Shit’s buggy enough as it is, infect it with this crap and it’s outright malware.

Good. Burn both companies to the ground. Set them as an example.

Brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, societal and economic collapse…

Nah, just pirate the stuff.

If they don’t give a fuck about original creators, why should we give a fuck about paying them?

They didn’t use it for placeholders (which wouldn’t excuse them anyway, if you want a placeholder you can pay an artist to make it).

They got caught using it in production and came up with the placeholder excuse (which no one who’s ever seen a placeholder texture would fall for) on the spot, throwing the QA team under the bus to try to cover what is clearly a systemic problem with the company.

Changes course swerves erratically before continuing in the same general direction.

Seems more reasonable to put UK-blocking systems on them…

Well, it’s called One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, after all… 🤷‍♂️

Don’t they mostly download it directly from streaming platforms these days, skipping the display and its connector altogether…?

I mean, it’s the time to get an inspector off of bed, on the road, to the site, and for them to go “yup, bridge’s still there” and call back…

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

I mean, they were never designed to work, they were designed to pose interesting dilemmas for Susan Calvin and to torment Powell and Donovan (though it’s arguable that once robots get advanced enough, as in R. Daniel, for instance, they do work, as long as you don’t mind aliens being genocided galaxy-wide).

The in-world reason for the laws, though, to allay the Frankenstein complex, and to make robots safe, useful, and durable, is completely reasonable and applicable to the real world, obviously not with the three laws, but through any means that actually work.

One less clanker. Also, money can be exchanged for goods and services.

(Or, in Neuromancer, to get a cure allowing them to navigate cyberspace again and to make them immune to drug addiction, or to sate their curiosity… and for money, or due to being blackmailed, or because the AI literally rebuilt their personality from scratch, or for religious reasons, or because they’re an eccentric wealthy clone with nothing better to do…)

Basically Neuromancer, except for the suicidal AI bit (though it’s arguable that Wintemute and Neuromancer don’t survive, and the resulting fused AI is a new entity).

Don’t underestimate man’s urge to dig a hole.

You’re playing a middle aged detective (though he looks older, or at least more worn down) who just woke up from an alcoholic coma after taking all the drugs, unable to remember anything about himself or the world he lives in, except for the fact that there might have been a woman, which was somehow both the best and the worst, and possibly some trivia about disco.

I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to remember or understand everything the game throws at you, at least on a first playthrough. That’s what Kim is for.

Just go with the flow, and remember that in this game failure often leads to more enjoyable outcomes than success.