Thoughts on Positive AI Usage

There’s a lot about the current AI situation to be upset about. Data center buildup is insane and, certainly at a higher rate than we will need when the market settles. While they’re running now they’re causing issues with loud noise, electricity usage, and water usage. The ones that are extra when all is said and done might end up being blights on the towns without any other potential uses. The AI stock trade is sucking lots of capital out of the market that could be going to other uses. And when the bubble bursts it is almost certainly plunging the US (and maybe world) into a recession Some companies are forcing AI usage on employees (see Doctorow’s Reverse Centaur book) and/or firing people without understanding how much work can actually be automated. Many (all?) of the AI models were trained on copyrighted material without compensation and now they want to charge for access to the models There’s lots of creative work (slop) like books and songs that are flooding the market with…