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I really want to link this article here as a counterpoint - why "AI is just a tool" as a stance doesn't quite cut it as far as well-founded opinions go: https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html
That was unnecessarily wordy to express only two complaints:
AI causes environmental damage and AI was created by scraping content that the AI companies didn't own.
That's the second sentence, and it's fairly clear that the author means to start the discussion of the titular topic, not to conclusively explore every ail of AI. Of which there are many, yet enumerated.
Some people call this "food for thought"; I would agree.
You can have a wandering train of thought without writing 2500 words repeating the same two ideas over and over and over.
He's not wrong.