Fuck AI

Funny of you to invoke the Luddites. Have you ever actually read about the Luddites beyond the pop-culture use of them as dismissive of people reluctant about technology? They were far from irrationally hate-filled.

They objected to the mass unemployment, child labor, and pathetic wages of the time. Living conditions for working class had broadly worsened. Significantly facilitated by technology that facilitated the owners inflicting those conditions. The technology had undermined the leverage of the working class. Rather than the technology making it better for all, it was a way to concentrate wealth into a smaller few and harm the welfare of others. So in early days, they would damage the instruments of the industrial exploitation. The government response was to make such damage to property even without any personal injury punishable by death, and started killing people of the movement before the movement escalated to any violence on people, protecting the wealthy at the expense of the working class.

Anyway, folks have similarly offered a great deal of legitimate grievances on the realities of AI usage, it also is far from irrational. For the folks referenced in this article, it's how the technology in practice has harmed art, and it's hard to disagree with that sentiment as we get bombarded by waves of slop that superficially resembles content, but is ultimately devoid of substance. Also, again we are seeing ambitions of even further concentrating wealth without real plans to have anyone share in hypothetical boons.