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I'm getting the feeling that most people wouldn't hate AI so much if it wasn't: 1. Built of the labor of let's without fair compensation, and 2. Wasn't a privacy nightmare. I think people would be okay with it even in spite of the energy usage because that's something that can be optimized over time. But these other points are systemic societal issues that the current approach to AI entrenches.
At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.
Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it's taking away our livelihoods, and it's not even really good at it. It's also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we'd be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.
It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It's good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It's decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn't documented.
It's bad at art compared to an artist It's good at art compared to an average electrician.
It's good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It's great at marketing to CEO's.
There's a lot more there than social issues.
And if it was even partly accurate, having all the down sides on top of being given absolutely trash level output is a bit of a downer.