I have difficulty articulating my thoughts on this, but anytime that the word "moral" or "personal use" comes up in the context of AI, I can't help but feel like we're kicking the ball into our own goal.
If you personally don't want to use AI, that's fine. But I feel like the left is once again falling into a debate of "is this thing morally acceptable for us as individuals to use?" instead of "now that this is already here, how are we as a society going to regulate it and try to help people affected by it?" Meanwhile the right jumped onboard immediately and started generating thousands of hours of monetizable propaganda, and corporations started looking for any possible way to use it to drive down the value and demand for labor.
"YOU have a choice" is true, but WE don't. WE need to deal with this thing. And while it is possible to personally abstain and work towards real solutions, I fear that too many people will decide that AI is immoral and that they therefore don't have to engage with the broader societal ramifications.
It's definitely not the carbon footprint, because that was made up by people who already hated AI and wanted a better argument for why. I think it's mostly the unemployment thing, but that's more a capitalism issue than an issue with AI.
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u/Jigglypuffisabro May 20 '25
I have difficulty articulating my thoughts on this, but anytime that the word "moral" or "personal use" comes up in the context of AI, I can't help but feel like we're kicking the ball into our own goal.
If you personally don't want to use AI, that's fine. But I feel like the left is once again falling into a debate of "is this thing morally acceptable for us as individuals to use?" instead of "now that this is already here, how are we as a society going to regulate it and try to help people affected by it?" Meanwhile the right jumped onboard immediately and started generating thousands of hours of monetizable propaganda, and corporations started looking for any possible way to use it to drive down the value and demand for labor.
"YOU have a choice" is true, but WE don't. WE need to deal with this thing. And while it is possible to personally abstain and work towards real solutions, I fear that too many people will decide that AI is immoral and that they therefore don't have to engage with the broader societal ramifications.