I’m using it extensively, for instance, I have to create contracts with businesses that I work with, and AI is really helpful, works within minutes, and I don’t have to get a lawyer involved (I have sufficient legal know how, to be able to check the texts). I ask Claude.AI many questions, which help me to find out about any kind of topic (eg I wanted to know more about mobile nuclear reactors and got a quick summary within seconds). Naturally, you should take nothing at face value, blindly believing AI won’t do you any good, AI does not replace your brain. I create marketing materials and personal profiles with the help of AI, and I’ve also improved my CV. I have even used it to write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer, I truly was at a loss for words, but AI helped me to come up with some useful sentences (which I personalized). All in all, it is extremely useful, even to answer questions here on Lemmy.
AI is mass surveillance
AI is identity theft
AI is privacy invasion
AI is built on theft
AI use leads to cognitive decline
AI is responsible for multiple child suicides
AI is environmental destruction
It is not possible to be an ethical user of AI tools at present. If you use them you are contributing to and complicit in the problems they create, which vastly outweigh any short-term convenience benefits. If you use AI tools you are participating in a destructive system.
Do your own work.
The only one that really applies is the last one. All the others are peripheral to the topic of this post and use of LLMs in general.
All of the detrimental effects of using AI tools and all of the unethical ways in which training data is collected for them are valid reasons that anyone with any sense should object to their use, regardless of whether those effects are directly the result of any specific circumstances. There are more than enough problems that all of this crap can and should be generally maligned and universally avoided until the companies responsible for it fix their shit.
If you are not a conscientious objector then you are complicit in the damage being done.
All of it.
That’s a general, sweeping statement meant to lump everything together and denounce it categorically, without regard for how any of those issues affect users or whether they’re relevant under the guise of a nebulous altruistic motive. It’s lazy and so characteristic of the most obnoxious brand of leftism on here.
Literally none of those issues, besides the last, is relevant to me or even OP’s use, regardless of how little or how much we actually use the technology. I welcome you to expand on your points to prove each one without resorting to blanket statements, because I guarantee that none of them apply besides the last.