Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:

1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.

2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.

3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.

4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.

5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.

It’s a grift, through and through.

The people mocking Mamdani for eating with his hands have no issue with white people eating burgers chicken & fries with their hands

The people mocking Mamdani for identifying as African American despite being born in Uganda have now issue with a white billionaire identifying as African American

The people mocking Mamdani for saying America can do better had no issue with making President the white guy who ran on “America isn’t great”

It’s not patriotism they’ve embraced—it’s white supremacy.

"Dachau was the first step on the road to atrocity. Will America go there? Eight months ago, I would have said never. At that point, America was still a nation under the rule of law. Now, we have politicians cheering the image of people being fed to alligators" and "selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp."

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-dachau-trump-takes-the-next

This is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.

It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.

We can argue about what’s the absolute worst part of what Congress is about to do. The enormous transfer of the nation’s wealth to the richest one percent from everyone else?

But for me it’s this: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/114762327100958328