Political Memes

Not really, but I guess it depends whether you’re asking about my personal beliefs or policy positions.

My concerns about gen AI basically fall into these categories:

• Environmental impact: water usage, energy usage
• Harmful output: misinfo, disinfo, reinforced biases, scams, “chatbot psychosis”
• Signal jamming: gen AI produces so much output based on so little input, it really could cause a communication equivalent of Kessler Syndrome
• Anticompetitive practices: using the works of creators to compete against them in the same market
• Labor alienation: what Doctorow calls “chickenized reverse centaurs”
• Undermining open access: see Molly White’s essay “No, Not Like That”

FOSS addresses some of those, to some degree. But none of them completely.

Should a technology be banned just because it’s not perfect? No. (And even if you decide a technology should be banned, you have to consider the practicality of actually enforcing it. It’s not like you can “uninvent” software.)

My biggest worry is actually the signal jamming. And there’s not really much we can do about that except to just decide not to use AI.

Edit: Btw, that was a good question and whoever downvoted you is a butt.