anyone without careful checking, if they're being used for anything important.
They can't be checked properly by anyone without the knowledge to understand what they're doing.
Use of genAI is NOT inevitable.
AI companies, peddlers and fans/addicts want everyone to believe it is, but that's simply pro-AI propaganda. Which the AI bros are good at. Sam Altman especially.
But it's bullshit.
As I've mentioned here often, some people are temporarily forced to use genAI because of their schools or jobs. But they can and should point out why use of genAI is a bad idea.
No one else ever has to use genAI. If they do so when they know that technology exists only because of the theft of intellectual property, and they still use it for any reason, they're choosing to act unethically, giving a thumbs-up to AI robber barons, and showing contempt for all the people whose work was stolen.
If they know that using it can dumb them down and de-skill them, they're choosing that over using their own brain.
If they think that using genAI makes them smarter or more talented or more creative, they're being controlled by their egos and manipulated by pro-AI propaganda, and showing they haven't the slightest understanding of what real intelligence, talent and creativity are. Using genAI can't make anyone smarter, or turn them into a writer or visual artist or videographer or musician. It's plagiarism and fraud, and anyone who believes the AI bro line that AI "democratizes creativity" is delusional.
Although there are open source models, they're all still illegally trained and unreliable, and the best genAI models are owned and controlled by people who do not have the best interests of humanity at heart.
And if someone uses genAI for companionship, they're playing an insane game with an illusion of a companion designed to flatter and manipulate them, and the results can be tragic.
No one who gives much thought to what genAI is, what it does, whom it empowers, and whom it weakens and exploits, should ever want to use it.
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