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Extra spicy take: The Luddites were right. They were really always about opposing unethical use of technology, people who use their name as an insult were always all about "progress over people", and you should never feel bad for being called a Luddite.
Extra spicy, hut the kind of spicy you get on your anus after shitting out a too-hot meal
Oh yeah, I forgot copyright law was this static and beautiful thing that never gets reassessed or re-contextualized. Laws given from God that are never to be augmented or changed in any way. Especially not when something as new as AI enters the scene and crawls all content online.
If your defense is “it’s the law,“ then you don’t actually have an argument and for some reason have forgotten that this is not just a legal discussion, but an ethics one. Hanging your hat on “laws exist” as if they can’t and aren’t regularly changed is also bizarre. 
Once again, AI evangelists are adhering to a faith. Everything you’ve said has been vacuous, hand waving statements to make everyone else appear ignorant and behind the times. You have said nothing of substance this entire conversation, and I’m not going to continue having this discussion with somebody who operates like that. Have a good rest of your week, truly. But I am done. Feel free to have the last word.
There are definitely people who are harmed by FUD like this. For example the current writers strike, which has 11,000 people putting down tools... indefinitely shutting down global movie productions that employ millions of people and leaving them unemployed for who knows how long.
I don't have anything against you or your colleagues. You've got every right to strike if that's what you want to do.
But there are millions of people being harmed by the strike. That's a simple fact.
Journalists/etc need to do their job and provide good balanced information on critical issues like this one. FUD like Drew Devalt posted inflames the debate and makes it nearly impossible for reasonable people to figure out what to do about Large Language Models... because like it or not, they exist, and they're not going away.
PS: while I'm not a film writer, I am paid to spend my day typing creative works and my industry is also facing upheaval. I also have friends who work in the film industry, so I'm very aware and sympathetic to the issues.
Not everything anti-Ai is luddite, some is just poorly thought through or downright incorrect, this is absolutely a luddite take