alt Hacker News> You believe that AI is not useful
I literally said the opposite? You keep arguing with some phantom you've made up.
> thinks AI is a net bad to humanity, even when it is controlled by public
Also not what was said. My point is precisely around it being a tool for private power concentration. If it was publicly owned, that would not be the case, obviously.
> I don't think its worth arguing at this point
I don't think you were ever arguing, you have not addressed any of my points.
I'll go even further and tell you my read of what is going on: You cannot engage with the actual arguments, because doing so would force you to confront the inconsistency of your ideology. To step out of ideology hurts, so you instead address a strawman you've built and then escape the conversation when that becomes untenable.
You've deliberately been vague about your position on the utility of AI.
So I'll assume you think AI is useful for society and a net good if it were not controlled by capitalists. Again I wouldn't have to assume this if you had been straight about it.
If you think AI is useful if it were publicly owned, surely high energy costs and hardware costs are necessary if the public were to use it?
Whats the point of talking about hardware and energy costs when that's something the public needs to bear that cost in one way or another, whether by voting for it or not?
If the bubble bursts and the models become commoditised, the margins on hosting drop to near zero and people can access models at much cheaper costs and there's no central authority (like spooky oligarchy who control power) that you are scared of.
So why is hardware and energy costs even a problem if the public consents to using AI with their own revealed preference?