Given that once again I've made the mistake of making an offhand post about the topic that happened to break containment, I want to restate that my position on AI is that there is a lot of things to be legitimately concerned about with regards to AI as both a product and an industry and how it's being integrated into production pipelines, customer service, internet browsers, search engines, and operating systems, and how it's lowering the barrier of entry required to pump garbage out into online spaces that already had problems with garbage oversaturation; but that at the same time, for a variety of reasons I refuse to align myself with any critique of AI as a technology that is fundamentally rooted in any of the following ideas:

• The idea that someone desiring artistic output without Putting In The Work is an individual moral failure and/or an indicator of some form of widespread societal decay.
• Anything related to copyright, intellectual property, or the idea that copying something (or in the case of AI, collecting statistical data on something to construct a mathematical model) can be meaningfully described as theft.
• The idea that AI generated media is categorically Not Art.
• The idea that using AI gives people any form of permanent brain damage or "cognitive decay" or whatever fancy-sounding euphemism for "mentally disabled" people are using this month.
• The idea that environmental impact alone makes individual AI usage inherently immoral (while still considering other equally frivolous uses of the internet with comparable environmental impacts morally neutral)
• Anything to do with The Human Soul or similar concepts (lol. lmao even.)