So what's so bad about using AI any way?

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56. Your experience of the utility of AI is comparable to the utility of Macro commands, data merges and scripts

But you are also familiar with the untrustworthy side of AI, and that is the side that was used to target the girls school in Iran, is being used to misidentify suspects in crime investigations, make DOGE cuts to agency budgets, deny medical treatment by insurance companies, expunge people from voting rolls, and make all sorts of critical calculations and decisions, not to mention answer questions from everyday people, all while scraping our personal data even more than is done now.

In order for these above uses of AI to be cost and time efficient, they demand unquestioning trust from the user, no fact checking , no doubting.

If the techbros get their way, it will become harder and harder to use computers and the internet without using AI, even for mundane tasks, and we will have to pay extra for it.

I have encountered AI, but other than a few customer service chat bots, have never knowingly or willingly used it out of principle, as there is nothing in my life I can imagine that would make using AI desirable.