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I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

If I have a lawnmower that works really well to mow grass but requires the life of someone else to run it, is it useful? No, because I have a moral obligation to avoid using it. (And LLMs are nowhere near as reliable as a lawnmower.)