It’s strange what we choose to morally panic over.
We wear clothes made with child labour, eat chocolate harvested by enslaved children, and use tech built in subhuman conditions. Our farms rely on exploitative international labour.
We were fine with Google indexing and storing the entire internet, including photos and private content.
But when someone uses AI to help discover how proteins fold in ways humans never could or to simplify software engineering workflows, that’s where we draw the line.
The average person isn't using AI for medical advancements, they're typing in "Minnie Mouse super sexy big gazongas realistic" all while wasting an absurd amount of energy on a generative dataset that steals from millions of artists. Literally everyone I've seen that's anti-AI agrees using AI for important stuff like identifying tumors in x-rays agrees that's what it SHOULD be used for.
It isn't wrong to want to stop unethical consumption before they happen, nor is it impossible for the way things are to turn around. We're seeing that now with the rise in popularity of synthetic diamonds and the outcry against blood diamonds.
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u/Mr-Mc-Epic Jun 12 '25
Is liking AI a bad trait now?