@Lily_and_frog @torgo I absolutely love AI as a research field in CS, but I despise the AI business. Capitalism in general is just a cancer of the economy which is killing our civilisation, fascism is just what capitalism turns to when a significant number of the rich have outgrown liberal democracy and want to rule the world without facing personal consequences, and businesses always use automation where the human workers are too expensive or too fickle and unruly. Automating the production of propaganda is a huge step forward for all the authoritarian systems in the world, but the technology itself is just that, technology. You can use a hammer to drive a nail into a plank, but you can also use it to nail a man to a piece of wood and let him hang there until he dies.
Besides, what's marketed as "AI" is but a tiny sliver of actual AI R&D. It's all just Deep Learning, the most popular incarnation of Machine Learning, and even then mostly four kinds of models: Diffusion models (mostly for image generators, but sometimes also for 3D objects or sounds), transformers (LLMs, chatbots, agents), GANs, world models (video generators, self-driving cars). Much of it isn't really ready for production but is being pushed anyway because the investors have sunk so much money into it all that they need to see some returns.