Fuck AI

The AI industry deserves zero pity, not just because of that, here is my full list:

1. Content stealing, AI companies have trained their models on data that they have had zero right to, books, movies, pictures, music, none of which they have paid for to use.
2. Encouraging loss of skills and knowledge, companies/organizations thinking that a skilled and knowledgable employee is worth the same as a statistics driven chatbot will cause huge issues going forward, this is probably my biggest issue with AI currently, the rejection of skills and knowledge.
3. The waste of resources, I can see the need for a few AI datacenters, I don't like AI, but clearly there is a market for it, however, I will not accept the extreme expansion of datacenters bing built and using local resources to the detriment of the local population.
4. The classic dealer trap, "the first one is free", it is clear that in five years AI companies will have ramped up the cost of using their models by a LOT. Right now they are locking their customers into a trap that will start squeezing them hard.
5. The genericness of the output, it is bland and just feels generic.

This is going to be a bloodbath.

Poverty.

hopefully your local laws give you the means to fight back

The power of laws depends on the consent of the governed. If most people comply, law enforcement can keep the rest in check.

Protests against unfair laws need to be backed by popular support. There may be many people who disagree with a policy, but don't actively resist: They're worried they'll stand alone, tell themselves it's not that bad or simply arent passionate enough about it. But if a movement manages to recruit enough people, prove tenacious and create the impression that they're not going away any time soon, lawmakers and -enforcement will eventually have to make concessions.

For that recruitment, the protests need to be precise in their disruption and unambiguous in their message. The people gluing themselves to roads for example fail to actually target the oil industry and instead obstruct people that just want to get to work. The people protesting segregation by peacefully sitting somewhere they're not supposed to had more success because they didn't actually cause enough damage to warrant the violent response, which motivated more people to participate (and to some degree vindicated groups willing to use non-peaceful means).

In that vein, protests should target the immediately visible damaging parts of the data centers: Disrupt their water and power supply. Protests against abstract social effects are harder to see the connection of (though they could supplement the directly visible ones).

Protests don't need to be legal, if there is no legal recourse available, to be effective. They just need to be well-thought-out and -coordinated. (Do be safe about it, don't plan them openly and all that)

We really gotta stop having those