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It's the societal harm, the theft and devaluing of art, the worker disenfranchisement, the mental health effects, the baffling use in warfare, every available means of entertainment online getting infested with vacuous slop. And yes, the environmental impacts. It just never ends.

For one, there are individual issues here that would prevent me from trying to benefit from the same tech that causes them, given the choice. And that's even if I was convinced that I would benefit, which is a separate question. I don't see much evidence that software as a craft is better off.

For two, the sheer laundry list has become so exhaustive and overwhelming that it feels silly to me to run through it and then stop short of saying that LLMs are holistically objectionable. At least as currently constituted.