your spiritual predecessors campaigned against electricity, radio, audio recordings, TV, computers, video games, CGI, the internet, cellphones, smartphones, and perhaps a myriad other things.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/The_Unre...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...

etc.

but yes, of course, this time it's going to be different, because unlike those boomers, you and your internet friends are on the right side of history.

>without much hard evidence.

1. China. China has the tech, the talent, and the hardware. you could (you can't), for example, equate LLMs to CSAM in the West to make it absolutely verbotten, but China wouldn't give a shit, and 93% of the world would use Chinese tech, dismissing your dollar store Butlerian Jihad as yet another bout of America's schizophrenia.

2. it's been less than 3 years since ChatGPT release, and it now has 800 million active weekly users. and it's not even available in China and Russia, where Deepseek and other Chinese models easily add another 200-300 million users. no other technology had such explosive proliferation before. good luck convincing all these people who now use it every day to give it up because... because it's bad, mkay?

3. unlike the previous one, the current US administration - which will remain in power for at least three more years - is not hostile to this technology. there will be no regoolations, no moratoriums, and no matter how utterly detached from reality the next administration might end up being, in three years it will be too late to do anything about it (even more so than now).

4. trillion dollar corporations have collectively invested hundreds of billions into this technology. oh, they would love some regulations to hamstring their competitors, but if you try to step on their toes, well, good luck.

5. local models are already good enough to be perpetually useful. what the fuck are you going to do, order door-to-door seizure of fully semi-automatic GPUs?