Assuming youre genuinely interested and not going to rage block me, happy to engage.
1. The total 'damaging the enviornment' aspect is about 2% of additional CO2 emissions. On the current figures.
Yes, it is likely to grow, or maybe not because there are now entirely capable openweights 32B models that run #vibecode on a powerful gaming rig.
Whats destroying the planet right now is Petro agriculture and Transport by an order of magnitude.
The #Datacentres (right now) are not going to kill us. Holidays in Spain, your 4x4 truck and KFC dinner is.
2. Stealing everyones work?
Most of the kool kids I know who are fighting #Ai right now (And I count myself in that group) have terrabytes of movies and audio files on our hard drives.
Remember "Information wants to be free?" the hacker credo? Well, its all free now.
3. I am an old fart and I was always at the bleeding edge of tech. I was fighting against unregulated AI, engaging with my politicians in 2023, when most of the #AntiAi folks were lauging at Blake Lemoine
The time to act was then.
The second best time to act is now.
Ai are weapons of mass destruction, and like weapons of mass destruction they must be regulated #RegulateAi
To that end, I have written 2 Senate AI Enquiry sumbissions over the years and initiated and contributed to my political party Ai policy.
I dont post silly memes, my AntiAi action is material.
There is a sticky on my profile you can read for more.
Lastly, if you really hate Ai and what it stands for, the best thing you can do about it is become informed.