Ask HN: Are you don’t like AI and why?

- It costs more jobs than it creates.

- It's the new meme tech, ala SAAS, Cloud, etc. that I have to tolerate now. I love seeing a "Chat with bing!" button, that's great.

- It's flush with cash due to the US having tonnes of play money to throw around, enabling irresponsible behavior such as pricing below cost. Vast sums of money are burned on this boondoggle around the world annually to achieve middling results. The new Bing AI assistant does not impress for example.

- It's an unsolved ethical problem. Sampling in music requires attribution, comparatively.

- It drastically exacerbates the accountability problem in an increasingly automated world with issues around accountability already. Look at all the threads here about people getting screwed by Google with no recourse?

- It lowers the barrier to entry for bad actors to gain legitimacy. Good actors never needed great art or anything else AI can do if they made things with care and skills they had.

- The world didn't need more content. It is awash with content already. A lot of the content we have now is not good and AI isn't going to make it magically better.

- AI as implemented specifically targets jobs that didn't represent real blocking problems for humanity. It doesn't purify water, eliminate filthy, backbreaking or intense and repetitive near-slave labor or anything else at this point, it came out of the desire of Elon and friends to take Shutterstock's annual profits. This is an ignoble goal. The task of automating the worst labor safely and reliably remains extremely challenging even when AI is involved.

A better question is what problems does AI really solve? Are those benefits worth the massive cost?

When I see something and I know that it was created with child labor, it induces the same disgust that AI products do. Perhaps I can do great and good things with some tool or product made with child labor, but that doesn't change the ethical abomination at the core of that product.

If AI isn't paired with UBI, then we are simply on a collision course for the elimination of tens of thousands of, admittedly awful, jobs. What are all those people going to do? Truck drivers, petty artists, call center workers, etc. We don't have Star Trek style replicators yet, and we have not uniformly evolved as a people to believe in a robust set of rights for our fellow man.

I understand why capitalism has forced this situation to happen, but it is incumbent on governments to aggressively protect their citizens and workers from the AI menace.

Just a feel.

Perhaps based on different priors, certainly different 'lived' experiences. Or prions. Why do yours fire that way? Can you explain it, meatpuppet? You only exist in my head, after all, as does everything. Unless there are absolutes, but they after all are givens, and if indeed you are real and so am I, then in what scope is our realness and how do we communicate that knowing, or feeling depending on truths, if not with a string of mutually understandable covenance, in this case language.

As such, the predictions that AI will "replace all artists" is obviously way overblown. At best, it will be a helpful tool, along the lines of Photoshop or After Effects.