Meh, AI in the way it’s most commonly presented is no more or less offensive than any other corposlop in the last decade tbqh. If anything at least it does something. The debate of whether it steals and reproduces or whether that’s studying and remixing is tired, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone make a single coherent argument that convinced me it was any different to a person studying, remembering and regurgitating a summary.

But this is all irrelevant sectarian distraction created by the ultra rich to divide the poor and generate debate and gather attention and hype, attract media’s fearmongering and thus pump up the stocks.

However, the solution to the entire issue is very simple - if AI is so useful - it belongs in the public domain in the hands of the commons.

It’s development, support infrastructure and uses should be transparent and open to scrutiny with regards to usefulness and sustainability, and the end product should be open to use for free for anyone at the point of use and without the possibility of deriving any sort of copyright from it’s output with enforced copyleft licensing, to acknowledge that the training data which made it possible belongs to everyone.