Fuck AI

Nope, all generative AI is bad, no exceptions. Something that uses the same kind of technology but doesn't try to imitate a human with artistic or linguistic output isn't the kind of AI we're talking about.

This.

I recently attended a congress about technology applied on healthcare.

There were works that improved diagnosis and interventions with AI, generative mainly used for synthetic data for training.

However there were also other works that left a bad aftertaste in my mouth, like replacing human interaction between the patient and a specialist with a chatbot in charge of explaining the procedure and answering questions to the patient. Some saw privacy laws as a hindrance and wanted to use any kind of private data.

Both GenAI, one that improves lives and other that improves profits.

Yeah, that's not what I was disagreeing with. You're right about that; I'm on record saying that capitalism is our first superintelligence and it's already misaligned. I'm just saying that it isn't really meaningless to object to generative AI. Sure the edges of the category are blurry, but all the LLMs and diffusion-based image generators and video generators were unethically trained on massive bodies of stolen data. Seriously, talking about AI as though the architecture is the only significant element when getting good training data is like 90% of the challenge is kind of a pet peeve of mine. And seen in that light there's a pretty significant distinction between the AI people are objecting to and the AI people aren't objecting to, and I don't think it's a matter of "a meaningless buzzword."

Because they are both computers and you can install different (GPU-bound) software on them?

It's true that generative AI is uses discriminative models behind the scenes, but the layer needed on top of that is enough to classify it as a different technology.