If ‘ai’ could stay within it’s own means - without wrecking the economy, wrecking the ecosystem, driving up costs on water, power and components - I doubt people would care.

Unfortunately it’s doing all that with abandon, and it’s obsessive adherents call anyone decrying this a luddite or that they’re supporting china.

It’s fucking gross, and fucking ridiculous, which is a precise fit for the clownshow age we live in.

“Your being is intended through the tool: you are intended to sit still, face forward, and behave”

That’s not a design feature of a chair, that’s your contextual experience. A chair is designed for seating, but it’s culture that determines how you view that experience.

A hammer is ostensibly designed to drive nails, affixing objects to one another, while some hammers are designed for breaking things apart. A hammer is a tool of construction, but culturally you might also recognize it as a weapon of war.

Tools by design have limited purpose, but not universal interpretation. AI is an oddity in that its design does not match its use. A hammer does not fail at the task of driving a nail, until you introduce user error. AI does not appear to be able to solve the problems it was “designed” to address. It doesn’t “create” or “think”, it performs an autocomplete and frequently fails to deliver usable results. AI is the idea of a tool, wielded in a variety of ways that do not produce consistent reliable results, all at enormous cost. Comparing it to a chair skips past the part where the chair is designed to dump you on the floor 75% of the time no matter how you behave in it.