I asked ChatGPT to rewrite "American Pie" to be more contemporary...

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56. If you'd talked to the near-suicidal artists, writers and teachers (who see their students being dumbed down)

that I've met over the last few years, you'd understand that "adapting a little bit" and viewing generative AI as somehow good isn't okay unless you're willing to accept education and human culture being destroyed by genAI companies, for the profit of AI companies.

The AI companies have admitted their tools won't work worth a damn unless they're allowed to rip off the world's intellectual property. OpenAI has admitted in court that their tools need more training data than what's in the public domain and what they're willing to pay for.

Some AI bros - billionaires - have even recommended getting rid of all intellectual property laws if the AI companies have to abide by them. The billionaires will still find ways to punish anyone who steals their intellectual property, but they don't want others to have that right.

You saw how quickly the AI bros lined up to kiss Trump's ass and bribe him.

They're not intending to give people access to genAI for free, or for low prices, indefinitely. Both OpenAI and Perplexity AI have floated the idea of charging individual users as much as $1,000 a month. But they need the users hooked on using genAI first, feeling they can't get by without it.

Marketing genAI to individuals, they talk about it saving time and increasing productivity (neither of which it does, if you factor in the time needed to spot and correct the inevitable genAI errors).

Marketing AI to businesses, they focus on using AI so workers can be laid off. Sam Altman of OpenAI has said that the new dream in Silicon Valley is billion dollar companies with just the founder/owner/CEO and NO employees, because God forbid any of the profit have to be shared.

The AI companies are well aware of the harm they're causing - all of it. They. Don't. Care.

But we don't have to cooperate with their goal of steamrolling human society with the single most harmful non-weapon tech ever developed (and I probably should say single most harmful tech, period, because they're trying to get genAI crammed into as many weapon and surveillance systems as possible, even knowing the high error rate).

It's astonishing to me that they've managed to convince so many people that the high error rate with genAI is acceptable. I've seen people try to compare genAI to calculators, but calculators would never have become widely used tech if they made so many mistakes that the calculator companies had to include warnings to check all answers yourself, especially for anything important, like the standard warnings with genAI.

No one needs to use this harmful, flawed technology - which is NOT intended to benefit humanity, but to exploit it.