And much of what you've posted on this topic has been interesting and educational. Still, I think I am learning ways to use it ethically, creatively, and efficiently. I figure I may as well see how I can make use of this technology, since it's everywhere already and becoming more ubiquitous.
There is something to the expression, "... throwing the baby out with the bath water." I don't know if it's exactly analogous, but I think it might be. I know a couple that is likely breaking up. She works for the federal government in the Dept of Energy. He wants to break up because she 'works for the evil government ('the man'). I don't think that's a very good idea.
Technology is constantly changing, and I think this is more than Elon Musk and the other truly evil and opportunistic people who are monetizing AI. Concerning new technology, I'm just glad I don't have to write in longhand, put it in a stamped envelope, and wait for it to be delivered for a post to be printed in a mimeographed copy of DU!
By the way - and you're likely to jump all over me for this - the AI model I use the most is open source, not ChatGPT, not Gemini, not Claude, although I have experimented with all of them. If you have the computing power, you can run the model locally on your system and not even allow it access to the WWW.
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