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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…

I think AI isn’t useful and I’m a serious critic.

The larger context of the point is that there are tens of millions of people who find it useful, and we need to reckon with how we’re either going to contain that harm or offer more sustainable, less damaging alternatives than what is currently possible. That’s the point I’m making.