Most people agree that there are legitimate applications for LLM technology, like in the medical field. This comes up every single thread.

Then you have trillions of dollars of investment on the promise of eroding worker power, and letting capital enunciate itself without labour. That's what it's essentially all for.

The "legitimate" uses of the technology are not even a passing concern for investors except insofar as they can point to it to excuse their grift.

"Asbestos is extremely toxic" and "asbestos can be useful and irreplacable at times" are both true. So are "lead is poisonous" and "tetraetillead is an effective anti-knocking agent, lead in solder stops tin whiskers from forming, and lead paint is pretty".

Also that's how racism got normalized again, after getting closer to putting it back into the cemetery of history. And so is every LGBTQ+-phobia you can name. Or even better: the tobacco industry, the alcohol industry, and the gambling industry all promote "responsible use" of their products.

Because utilitarians are amoral. In fact, the AI ethics "intellectuals" are usually utilitarians, as seen with "Longtermism" and "Effective Altruism."

You need to realize that your stance is not going to be enough.

Using it as a tool to speed up your own work is completely different from passing off its work as yours or using it to do someone else’s work

Okay but have you considered the brain is a muscle that needs exercise to stay healthy and functional and offloading "thinking" makes your brain weaker?

as the paycheck keeps coming.

How are you not comprehending yet that the reason investors are investing in those datacenters and models is because the shared business goal is to eliminate jobs for humans (so they can get all the profit of the business)??

I'd rather have someone tell me that they're literally into shit than that they're an AI "artist"