General Discussion

which
exists only because of the theft of the world's intellectual property,
dumbs down and de-skills users,
enables and encourages all kinds of fraud and disinformation and data gathering and surveillance,
harms education and the economy,
pollutes our information ecosystem,
damages the natural environment,
threatens users with what is sometimes called AI psychosis,
and is intended to transfer wealth and power from society at large and individual creators to tech oligarchs.

Generative AI has no benefits that could ever begin to outweigh the harm it's already done.