Fuck AI

No, and that's irrelevant. Their post is explicitly not about the majority, but about exceptions/edge cases.

I am responding to what they posted (I even quoted them), showing that the position that "there is no ethical use for generative AI" and that there are no exceptions is provably false.

I didn't think it needed to be said because it's not relevant to this discussion, but: the majority of AI sucks on all fronts. It's bad for intellectual property, it's bad for the environment, it's bad for privacy, it's bad for people's brains, and it's bad at what it's used for.

All of these problems are not inherent to AI itself, and instead are problems with the massive short-term-profit-seeking corporations flush with unimaginable amounts of investor cash (read: unimaginable expectations and promises that they can't meet) that control the majority of AI. Once again capitalism is the real culprit, and fools like the OOP will do these strawman mental gymnastics and spread misinformation to defend capitalism at all costs.

yes, a lot of my immoral actions are because it's hard or against the grain to be more moral (e.g. being a strict vegan even when traveling or not easily accommodated, or using cars when technically I could bicycle, but on dangerous roads and long distances).

I have definitely spent most of my adult life going against the grain in extreme ways to be a "better" person, but I have been left victimized and disabled for it, so I'm trying to learn to be more moderate and not take big social problems as entirely my personal responsibility. Obviously it's not one extreme or the other, it's an interplay between personal and social / structural.